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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 »

Tags: International Financial Institutions (IFIs), International Monetary Fund

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 »

Tags: International Financial Institutions (IFIs), International Monetary Fund, The World Bank

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 »

Tags: Corporations, Interview, water privatization

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 »

Tags: climate change, water

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 »

Tags: International Financial Institutions (IFIs), International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, Trends and Analysis

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 »

Tags: Economics, Environment, Food Security, Society

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 »

Tags: Corporations, Private Finance

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 »

Tags: Society, Urban Design

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 »

Tags: Society, Environment, Health & Wellness, Urban Design

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 »

Tags: Corporations

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 »

Tags: Uncategorized

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 »

Tags: Society, Food Security

Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and political will1 comment

Rubayat Ahsan wrote 4 weeks ago: Food security There are complexities of issues, policies, and national-international perspective ove … more »

Tags: Food Security

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 »

Tags: Video, Agrofuel/Biofuel

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 »

Tags: Society, Environment, Economics, Education, Policy and Law

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 »

Tags: Aid Conditionality, International Financial Institutions (IFIs), International Monetary Fund, privatization, The World Bank, Trends and Analysis

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 »

Tags: Society, Economics, Policy and Law


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