Hungry for Justice: How the World Food System Fails the Poor
Compilation of articles from Americas Policy Program including an article titled
Agri-food Industry's Deadly Cycle Feeds Immigration by Eric Holt-Gimenez
Inequalities in the world's food system have been aggravated by recent developments to create the much talked-about food crisis. But what is behind the headlines? This new series delves into agrofuels, trade policy, corporate concentration, climate change, and rising demand to help sort out the real causes of the crisis and what needs to be done about it.
To read these articles go to:
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5249
Hunger, Crisis, and Business: The perfect storm of food aid
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At the June 1-4, 2008 FAO Food Security Summit in Rome, representatives of 181 countries reaffirmed their commitment to food security goals from previous summits held in 1996 and "Five Years Later." Delegates voiced concern about the lack of progress toward the UN Millennium Development Goals. That's the good news.
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Food First Fellow Dr. Raj Patel testified at the House Committee on Financial Services
Contributing Factors and International Responses to the Global Food Crisis
Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 10:00 a.m., 2128 Rayburn House Office Building
To listen to the webcast:
Food price increases—who gets hurt and what can be done about it
by Miguel A. Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
Food prices are increasing by the day, countries are cutting trade in some basic grains, and food riots, marches, and protests are happening in countries around the world. Is agriculture at a crossroads? Are the world’s 1.5 billion hectares of farmlands sufficient to feed us, the animals we consume… and also produce agrofuels for our industrial way of life?
Recently adopted U.S. and the E.U. renewable energy standards are contributed to rapidly rising prices for both land and food. Concerns about
Will Agro fuels Usher Famine?
Black Star News
by Sifelani Tsiko
December 14, 2007
Industrialized countries are drawing up ambitious renewable fuel targets to reap huge rewards from the bio-fuels boom while avoiding discussion of the heavy price people in the Global South are paying to help sustain the consumptive oil-based lifestyles of the West.
Agronomists, ecologists, environmentalists and development activists who met recently in Mali called on African governments to resist pressure from the Industrialized North to grow food crops for the production of biodiesel.
Farmer Experiences with Food Shortage in Southern Ethiopia
By Mulugeta L Handino, Field Researcher and Development Expert with Food First
12 Myths About Hunger
Updated by Holly Poole-Kavana based on the book World Hunger: Twelve Myths
Why so much hunger?
What can we do about it?
To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.
Myth 1:
Not Enough Food to Go Around
Famine in Africa Means the Poor Can't Buy Food
Nizar Visram
Nairobi
originally published in The East African
According to the World Food Programme 25,000 people die from hunger and
poverty every day in Africa.
Hurricane Katrina: An Unacceptable Failure to Value Human Life
Food First staff and board extend the
survivors of Hurricane Katrina our deepest sympathies. We can only
imagine the pain and suffering Gulf Coast residents are facing. As
you rebuild your homes and communities, please know that you have the
support of all of us at Food First.
Many lives have been devastated by this
natural disaster. Food First will continue to explore the devastation
of the man-made disaster that made the hurricane worse: Poverty.
Fact Sheet: Food Aid in the New Millenium - Genetically Engineered Food and Foreign Assistance
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Fact Sheet: Food Aid in the New Millenium
Genetically Engineered Food and Foreign Assistance
Disturbing evidence has come to light which suggests that US taxpayer dollars are being used through foreign assistance programs to subsidize the export of genetically engineered (GE) foods to the Third World and to finance GE research. This raises very serious ethical questions about our foreign aid dollars.