Hunger

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.

Powerpoint Presentation for Policy Brief No. 16 from a presentation by Eric Holt-Gimenez at the Community Food Security Coalition 2008 Conference in Philadelphia

rjonasse — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:59:42 -0400

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Will a Bailout for Wall Street Spell Hunger for the World?

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:47:06 -0400

By Annie Shattuck and Amanda El-Khoury
Institute for Food and Development Policy

Hungry for Justice: How the World Food System Fails the Poor

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:39:17 -0400

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

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:02:28 -0400

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.

Food First Fellow Dr. Raj Patel testified at the House Committee on Financial Services

admin — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:00:26 -0400

Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 10:00 a.m., 2128 Rayburn House Office Building
To listen to the webcast:

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Food price increases—who gets hurt and what can be done about it

admin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:45:28 -0400

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?

admin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

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

admin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:59:58 -0500

By Mulugeta L Handino, Field Researcher and Development Expert with Food First

12 Myths About Hunger

admin — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:54:36 -0400

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