Kenyan Drought: Competing solutions to climate change
by Tanya
Kerssen and Shoshana Perrey
Issue #3 AAAGRrrr!
Check out the new issue of AAAGRrrr! : African Agroecological Alternatives to the Green Revolution. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2174
TUNE IN TO AN INTRIGUING CONVERSATION WITH DR. VANDANA SHIVA ON PBS RADIO STATION KQED!
Vandana Shiva was interviewed to a standing room only crowd in the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco as a part of the prestigious San Francisco City Arts and Lectures Program on April 28th, 2008.
PBS radio station KQED will rebroadcast the entire interview on the following dates and times (listed below). Northern California residents can listen live on the air at local times and others around the world can listen live online at the web link provided below.
Vandana Shiva Interview Broadcast Schedule
(all times are Pacific Daylight Time).
Sunday, July 13 at 1pm (PDT)
Rural Development--The Green Revolution
Excerpts of a lecture by Food First Executive Director, Eric Holt-Giménez speaking to a UC Berkeley class spring 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0m5sz26xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyife558z8
The New Green Revolution and World Food Prices
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by Raj Patel and Eric Holt-Giménez
It was just a matter of time… and not long at that. The world food crisis and the explosion of “food riots” across the globe has been turned into an opportunity. By whom? By the same institutions that created the conditions for the crisis in the first place: proponents of the new Green Revolution.
Bill Gates Aims to Save Africa
Forget Bono. The world's richest man gives away hundreds of millions to foster a new Green Revolution.
by Ronald Bailey
January 29, 2008
Agroecological Alternatives to the New Green Revolution for Africa
Outcome of a joint meeting on climate change, hunger, rural development and agroecological alternatives to the Green Revolution
held in Mali, Africa November 26th – December 2nd 2007
Food First collaborated with other organizations to bring more than 150 participants from 25 African countries and 10 non-African countries. Attendees including farmers, pastoralists, environmentalists, women, youth and development organizations, gathered at the Nyéléni Center in Selingue, Mali from November 26th to December 2nd. Field trips to area farms helped to inform the discussion on:
- Climate change and agriculture, fisheries and pastoralism in Africa
- The fight against hunger
- Development aid for agriculture and rural development in Africa
- African Agroecological Alternatives to the Green Revolution.
Documents from the meetings are available at www.moreandbetter.org
Eric Holt-Gimenez on CBC's "The Current" Speaking on New Green Revolution for Africa
Eric Holt-Gimenez is interviewed on March 27, 2007 on the program "The Current" by Canadian Public Broadcasting.
In part 3 Eric speaks about Food Sovereignty and the Rockefeller-Gates Green Revolution for Africa initiative.
More information about this show can be found at the CBC website
Africa's Wealth of Seed Diversity and Farmer Knowledge--Under threat from the Gates/ Rockefeller "Green Revolution" initiative
Statement from African civil society organizations at the
World Social Forum 2007
Nairobi, Kenya
25 January 2007