Policy Briefs

Smallholder Solutions to Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:07:02 -0500

Written By Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck

Policy Brief No 18: Why the Global Food Security Act Will Fail to Curb Hunger

rjonasse — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:32:34 -0400

The Global Food Security Act (SB 384) passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month. The legislation, also known as the Lugar-Casey Act, aims to reform aid programs to include a stronger focus on long-term agricultural development, and restructure aid agencies to better respond to crises. While this renewed attention is welcome, funding under the proposed law – some $7.7 billion worth of it - would be directed largely to genetically modified crop research.

Policy Brief No. 16: The World Food Crisis - What’s behind it and What we can do about it

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:19:29 -0400

“A Silent Tsunami” The World Food Program’s description of the global food crisis raises the specter of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.

The Doha Collapse: Time to get agriculture out of the WTO

rjonasse — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:58:52 -0400

The Agrofuels Trojan Horse: Biotechnology and the Corporate Domination of Agriculture

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:10:35 -0400

Policy Brief No. 14
by Annie Shattuck
April 2008

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Food First Policy Brief No. 13

admin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:40:28 -0400

Food First Policy Brief No.12

admin — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:26:15 -0400

Food First Policy Brief No. 12

Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Ph.D., Miguel A. Altieri, Ph.D., and Peter Rosset, Ph.D.

Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
October 2006

Policy Brief No.11: Famine and the Future of Food Security in North Korea

admin — Mon, 09 May 2005 18:33:46 -0400

by Christine Ahn

Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
May 2005

Policy Brief No. 10: Shining India? Economic Liberalization and Rural Poverty in the 1990s

Melissa Moore — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:55:00 -0500

by Anders Riel Müller and Raj Patel

Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
May 2004

Policy Brief No.9: Agricultural Liberalization in China: Curbing the State and Creating Cheap Labor

Melissa Moore — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:02:49 -0400

by Maximilian Eisenburger and Raj Patel

Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
September 2003