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People Putting Food First #122
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Buy Fair Trade Gifts for your loved ones and support Food First http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2309
URGENT ACTION--Save the Hmong Garden in Fresno, CA USA
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2310
There never was a better time to end hunger--equitably, sustainably, and permanently. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2308
UN report on organic agriculture in Africa http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2306
Food First News & Views Fall 2008, Vol. 30 #110 Twin Tsunamis? First food, then financial
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2295
People Putting Food First #121
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Green Gold: Why cellulosic ethanol is a threat to farmers and the planet http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2263
Policy Brief No. 16: The World Food Crisis What’s behind it and What we can do about it
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2264
Powerpoint Presentation for Policy Brief No. 16 from a presentation by Eric Holt-Gimenez at the Community Food Security Coalition 2008 Conference in Philadelphia
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2267
Oakland Food Policy Council hires a coordinator
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2268
People Putting Food First #120
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The Wall Street Meltdown: The View from Asia
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2258
$700 Billion Buys Lunch for Every Child in the U.S. for 29 Years
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2256
The Financial Crisis and the Food Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2252
People Putting Food First #119
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Check out the many upcoming events posted here http://www.foodfirst.org/en/events
Policy Brief # 15 The Doha Collapse: Time to get agriculture out of the WTO http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2224
New documentary on the roots of Mexican migration to the U.S. released by Food First, Caminos: The Immigrant’s Trail http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2219
1. Intervale Center’s Healthy City
2. Push to make Microfinance Transparent
3. Guatemalan Network for Food Sovereignty
4. South Central LA Farmers Fight for the Right to Feed Themselves
People Putting Food First #118
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U.S. Family Farmers Applaud Demise Of Doha Negotiations
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2208
New e-book includes an article by Eric Holt-Gimenez—Hungry for Justice: How the World Food System Fails the Poor
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2202
Summer 2008 Food First Backgrounder—New Era for Agriculture
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2201
Summer 2008 Food First News and Views—Hunger, Crisis & Business: The Perfect Storm of Food Aid
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2200
People Putting Food First #117
New on the Food First web site, www.foodfirst.org
--Spanish edition of Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. Send this link to your Spanish-speaking friends and colleagues http://www.foodfirst.org/en/taxonomy/term/51
--In the wake of the WTO trade negotiations collapse, 18 Latin American countries meet to address the food crisis
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2187
--WTO Doha Collapse because of Failure to Deliver Development
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2186
People Putting Food First #116
New at www.foodfirst.org
--Action Alert: Contact Gov. Schwarzenegger about the 4th heat stroke death in California farm fields this summer at http://www.foodfirst.org/en/actionalerts
--Landless Workers Movements of Brazil (MST) under attack http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2168
--The food crisis fights back at www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2157
--Please fax Bunge, one of the three largest food producers in the world at http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2159
People Putting Food First #115
New on Food First’s website, www.foodfirst.org
--The second issue of our e-newsletter for the African Agroecological Alternatives to the Green Revolution, (AAAGRrrr!) just went out to subscribers. To subscribe, go to our web site and sign up.
--Statement from the parallel conference on food held in Rome: Terra Preta: Forum on the Food Crisis, Climate Change, Agrofuels, and Food Security, and
--Their request for organizations to sign on to their concluding recommendations on the world food crisis—Civil Society Statement on the World Food Emergency
People Putting Food First #114
New at www.foodfirst.org
• Industrial Transformation of our Food and Fuel System - a powerpoint presentation by Eric Holt-Giménez, presented at the Planet Diversity Conference in Bonn, Germany, May 2008. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/taxonomy/term/43
• Global launch of an international call by social movements and civil society concerning the World Food Emergency–An Invitation from La Via Campesina–Please forward to other groups http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2130
People Putting Food First #111
New on YouTube! Food First Executive Director, Eric Holt-Giménez speaking to a UC Berkeley class on rural development—the green revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0m5sz26xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyife558z8
1. Bakers March on Washington to Protest Rising Wheat Prices
2. Rising Food Prices, Rising Food Protests
3. The Cooperative Grocery of the East Bay is now open to shop the shelves
4. The Learning Farm: teaching street youths to grow food in Indonesia
1. Bakers March on Washington to Protest Rising Wheat Prices