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U.N. Seeks a Green Revolution in Food |
by Thalif Deen -- Feb. 18, 2009 -- "Changing the ways in which food is produced, handled and disposed of across the globe - from farm to store and from fridge to landfill - can both feed the world's rising population and help the environmental services that are the foundation of agricultural productivity in the first place," says a new study titled 'The Environmental Food Crisis' released by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP). (Full Article)
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Destroying African Agriculture |
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by Walden Bello -- June 3, 2008 -- Whether in Latin America, Asia, or Africa, the story has been the same: the destabilization of peasant producers by a one-two punch of IMF-World Bank structural adjustment programs that gutted government investment in the countryside followed by the massive influx of subsidized U.S. and European Union agricultural imports after the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture pried open markets. (Full Article) |
by Fred Magdoff -- May 26, 2008 -- An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to understand the full, dire implications of what is happening today it is necessary to look at the interaction between these short-term and long-term crises. Both crises arise primarily from the for-profit production of food, fiber, and now biofuels, and the rift between food and people that this inevitably generates. (Full Article)
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Neglect of Farming Led to Rice Crisis |
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by Marwaan Macan-Markar -- April 26, 2008 -- The Pesticide Action Network (PAN) has been raising the alarm about an impending rice shortage for years. PAN’s primary concern was the push towards rice cultivation on an industrial scale that promoted monoculture, where a few high-yield rice varieties that needed large doses of chemicals were held up as the answer to growing demand. (Full Article) |
by Noam Chomsky -- May 16, 2007 -- The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order’s structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand scheme of things. Recently, in many regions of Mexico, tortilla prices jumped by more than 50 per cent. (Full Article)
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Global Rush To Energy Crops Threatens To Bring Food Shortages and Increase Poverty, Says UN |
by John Vidal -- May 9, 2007 -- The global rush to switch from oil to energy derived from plants will drive deforestation, push small farmers off the land and lead to serious food shortages and increased poverty unless carefully managed, says the most comprehensive survey yet completed of energy crops. (Full Article)
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Hunger Due to Injustice, Not Lack of Food |
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by Tito Drago -- Oct. 17, 2006 -- Millions of people die of hunger-related causes every year. However, that is not because of actual shortages of food, but is a result of social injustice and political, social and economic exclusion, argue non-governmental organizations that launched a campaign in Spain on World Food Day Monday. (Full Article) |
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Farm Subsidies that Starve the World |
New Statesman -- June 20, 2005 -- Heavily subsidised commodities from the so-called developed world are dumped on the poor, while they are prevented from securing access to the markets of the rich. It is in this economic deviancy that the two big issues of the moment - Europe and the G8 - coalesce. (Full Article)
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“The reason the ecosystem is dying is not because we still have a dryer in our basement. It is because corporations look at everything, from human beings to the natural environment, as exploitable commodities. It is because consumption is the engine of corporate profits. We have allowed the corporate state to sell the environmental crisis as a matter of personal choice when actually there is a need for profound social and economic reform. We are left powerless. ” Chris Hedges
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