This report by the ETC Group was released in November 2009.

http://www.etcgroup.org/upload/publication/pdf_file/ETC_Who_Will_Feed_Us...

East Bay Express, 11/25/09

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/in-oakland-hunger-is-multicultural/Con...

Everyone knows Oakland, CA, is a diverse community. Probably more people from more races and nationalities live in the city than anywhere west of New York or north of Los Angeles. But before we celebrate diversity, think of its most diverse places. Some of them are surely the lines of hungry people lining up for food.

Huffington Post
January 7, 2010

By Eric Holt-Gimenez and Zoe Brent

FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: Food aid is rolling in to the breadbasket of California. In Fresno County, the state's most productive agricultural area, a hunger crisis has been unfolding for the better part of a year. Some 90,000 people a week lined up at local food banks this holiday season, many of them farm workers. Owing to what he declared a "drought disaster" California Governor Schwarzenegger delivered $4 million in food aid to Fresno last June. This winter he pledged to extend the aid indefinitely.

OAKLAND, CA: Just weeks after the USDA announced that one in seven Americans would go hungry at some point in 2009, a new report from Food First and the Community Food Security Coalition highlights a useful tool that city, state and local governments can use to fight hunger, diet-related diseases and other symptoms of a failing food system. Food Policy Councils: Lessons Learned is based on an in-depth survey of 48 Food Policy Councils established in North America over the past 30 years, and comes up with some surprising, hopeful stories.

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Two alarming documents on hunger and the food crisis were released in November. The USDA reports an alarming increase in food insecurity—fully one in seven Americans do not get enough food throughout the year. And a declaration from the World Summit on Food Security in Rome notes that the world is now hungrier than ever before. The parallels between global and national hunger are staggering.

By Raphael Grojnowski

In a welcoming move, the European Parliament has given recognition to the right to food sovereignty as the basis for the global fight against world hunger. Stemming from an initiative by the European Green Party, the resolution on the World Food Summit in Rome identifies that the “fight against hunger must be based on the recognition of the right to food sovereignty, defined as the capacity of a country or a region to democratically implement its own agricultural and food policies, priorities and strategies ”.

November 18, 2009

The UN Food Summit wraps up in Rome today. Leaders signed a declaration to end world hunger, but the meeting concludes without a firm commitment to fund the efforts. And critics say the meeting did little to address food pricing, agriculture development aid, or the effects that hunger has on women - all issues that are critical to confronting the needs of some one billion people who go hungry every night.

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November 13, 2009

To: Alonzo L. Fulgham
Acting Administrator and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development
Ronald Reagan Building Washington, D.C., 20523-1000

Call for U.S. Leadership at the World Summit on Food Security

Rome – As the World Summit on Food Security begins next week in Rome, U.S. civil society organizations expressed concern with the Obama administration’s support for increasing intensive, large-scale agriculture production and trade expansion as a solution to rising global hunger—failed approaches that have actually contributed to the global food crisis.