DEVELOPMENT REPORT NO 18: Gold Strike in the Breadbasket
Development Report No 18
Gold Strike in the Breadbasket:
Indigenous Livelihoods, the World Bank, and
Territorial Restructuring in Western Ghana
By Albert T. Armstrong
April 2008
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DEVELOPMENT REPORT No 17: Fair to the Last Drop: The Corporate Challenges to Fair Trade Coffee
Fair to the Last Drop:
The Corporate Challenges to Fair Trade Coffee
-By Eric Holt-Giménez, Ian Bailey, and Devon Sampson
Coffee, Poverty and Crises
Coffee has long stood for both privilege and poverty. Since the time of the colonial coffee booms of the mid 1800s, coffee has been one of the world's most valuable export commodities, and today is among the top five in gross value of world trade.
American Corn Growers Association statement on the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill
"[L]et’s take this plan to the WTO because this plan does exactly what has been advocated by the WTO – it eliminates subsidies, addresses the issue of overproduction and helps establish better prices for farmers around the world.”
--Larry Mitchell, CEO, American Corn Growers Association.
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Larry Mictchell of the American Corn Growers testified yesterday for a change of course away from the current failed U.S. farm and trade policy yesterday before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the House Committee on Agriculture. He put forth the Food From Family Farms Act, which would reestablish a price floor based through re-enactment of a nonrecourse loan, strategic energy and food reserves, and international negotiations. This bill has been co-authored with ACGA and the National Family Farm Coalition, and its approach has been endorsed by over 60 groups that are part of the Building Sustainable Futures For Farmers Globally Campaign, which includes IATP.
Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action
In 2005, $170 billion USD will be sent by family members working and living in the North to their loved ones in the global South. Most will use the money transfer services of a financial institution headquartered in the United States, and will lose $25-30 billion USD in the process. Corporate-driven globalization has forced expressions of love for family and community through the wires—for a hefty fee.
But if turned into an organizing opportunity, this experience for millions of people can become a powerful force in advancing global justice by holding these corporations accountable to the needs of the people.
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition represents the coming together of two very important movements in the United States: Labor and Immigration. Early in this 21st century labor unions noted that a growing number of their members and future members were immigrants and that their confidence in organizing and defending their rights as workers was being eroded as a result of a new, hostile environment to them.
Channel CAFTA Energy Toward the WTO
“Courage is a muscle – the more you use it, the stronger it gets,” declared Rodolfo Robles, a Guatemalan labor leader who survived years of death threats for his organizing. To all the good people who are hopping mad about the US Congress' approval of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), Rolfo would say, keep organizing.
Don't Let CAFTA Crush Central American and U.S. Working Families
CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement that will include Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic, is facing mounting public opposition throughout Central America and the United States.
Policy Brief No. 10: Shining India? Economic Liberalization and Rural Poverty in the 1990s
by Anders Riel Müller and Raj Patel
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
May 2004
