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Food Waste: Canada $3-5+ billion, UK $10+ billion per year?
Apparently, the British throw out a lot of food. Enough to cost them $10 billion British pounds per year ($15.5 billion Canadian dollars). My previous work on food waste for urban agricultur… more »
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IMF “Cure” for Food Crisis Also a Cause
Webmaster wrote 10 minutes ago: By Emad Mekay, May 21, 2008 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) … more »
The World Food Crisis – A Human Rights Disaster
Webmaster wrote 9 hours ago: FIAN International press release Geneva/Heidelberg, 22.05.08: Today, the UN Human Rights Council str … more »
Vandana Shiva: Why We Face Both Food and Water Crises
Webmaster wrote 3 days ago: By Maria Armoudian and Ankine Aghassian, AlterNet, May 15, 2008 Policy-makers are finally grappling … more »
The Triple Threat: Our Food, Water and Climate Challenges
Webmaster wrote 3 days ago: By Shiney Varghese*, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, May 14, 2008 Food prices rose 4 pe … more »
How to manufacture a global food crisis: lessons from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO
Webmaster wrote 5 days ago: How “free trade” is destroying Third World agriculture-and who’s fighting back … more »
Food Waste: Canada $3-5+ billion, UK $10+ billion per year?
shadowphenyx wrote 1 week ago: Apparently, the British throw out a lot of food. Enough to cost them $10 billion British pou … more »
Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis
Webmaster wrote 2 weeks ago: Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger. By Geoffre … more »
Turning Lawns Into Salad Bars
shadowphenyx wrote 2 weeks ago: The Edible Estates project by Fritz Haeg is yet another signal of things to come. The increasing p … more »
When Neighbors Become Farmers
shadowphenyx wrote 2 weeks ago: Where front yards become places of bounty. Of course there’s the matter of place and culture … more »
Making a killing from hunger
Webmaster wrote 3 weeks ago: We need to overturn food policy, now! GRAIN, April 2008 Download a PDF version! For some time now th … more »
On the food riots
yhon wrote 3 weeks ago: If you didn’t already know, there have been riots over rising food costs and shortages of stap … more »
Open Letter to Governments on World Food Crisis
Webmaster wrote 3 weeks ago: FIAN International, Heidelberg, April 17th, 2008. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Unive … more »
World Challenges on the Food Front = Huge
shadowphenyx wrote 4 weeks ago: The news just keeps on rolling in on the rising food prices and food riots worldwide. Rice for exa … more »
Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and political will
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Rubayat Ahsan wrote 4 weeks ago: Food security There are complexities of issues, policies, and national-international perspective ove … more »
Biofuels Starving Our People, Leaders Tell UN
Webmaster wrote 4 weeks ago: By Allegra Stratton, CommonDreams.org The leaders of Bolivia and Peru have attacked the use of biofu … more »
Why Bother to Act? Good Question. (Michael Pollan)
shadowphenyx wrote 1 month ago: Michael Pollan really didn’t have to single out the Chinese person as the evil twin who would … more »
Farmers, not lenders, hold key to food security
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: Tanim Ahmed*, NewAge, April 18, 2008 Photo: NewAge Food security of Bangladeshis is directly depen … more »
Politics is the price of rice...
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: Republished from NewAge, April 14, 2008 Recently, the chief adviser, in the light of accusations of … more »
Old Farming Crushed By New Rules?
shadowphenyx wrote 1 month ago: The boulder rolls down the hill at the will of the mighty and it wreaks havoc on all the little th … more »
