As the year 2008 comes to a close, the world must cope with a recent assertion made by the Food and Agriculture Organization that “one billion people will go hungry around the globe next year for the first time in human history…” This shameful scenario was presented in the December 28th issue of The Independent: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food crisis’
Fair Trade, Food Sovereignty and the Food Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, Alternative Trade Organizations, co-operatives, Fair Trade, food crisis, food sovereignty, small farmers on December 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
President-elect Obama presented with urgent “Call to Action” to end food crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, food crisis, solidarity economy on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our food system is broken. One billion people across the globe face hunger and food insecurity. On October 15th, World Food Day, a group of food, farm, labor, and justice organizations from across the US put forth a Call to Action calling on the next administration to take rapid steps to address the food crisis through fundamental [...]
Step up to the Plate on World Food Day: A Call to Action to End the Food Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food crisis, World Food Day on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One billion people around the world face hunger and food insecurity. Every time I hear that statistic (and it keeps growing), it never ceases to astound me. I’m struck both by the fact that in today’s world we have allowed this situation to occur AND that we have seen so little put forth by the [...]
Fair Trade Minimum Prices for Small Farmers Criticized: And a $500 Billion* Bailout for the Financial Industry?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Domestic Fair Trade, Fair Trade, Farm Aid, Federation of Southern Co-operatives, food crisis, small farmers on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m dashing off to the Farm Aid Concert in Mansfield, where Equal Exchange is the official coffee sponsor, so I’ll have to be brief. But I wanted to thank everyone who responded to Nick’s posting, “Co-operatives: The Democracies of our Economy“, with all of those thoughtful comments. I just wanted to add one more voice [...]
Five Reasons We Should Support Small Farms in the Global South
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agroecology, environment, food crisis, Food security, food sovereignty, small farmers, Via Campesina on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Via Campesina, the largest organization of small farmers in the world, has long advocated for changes in our agriculture and trade policies. For the past decade, they have been promoting the principles of Food Sovereignty as a way forward to protect rural communities, our food system, and the planet. As a movement that originated [...]
Women and the Food Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family farmers, food crisis, food sovereignty, women on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All too often the impact of unfair agriculture and free trade policies falls most severely on the shoulders of women. Grassroots International is a human rights and international development organization that works alongside their partners to promote the rights of all people to land, water, and food. We would like to thank Blair Rapalyea, an [...]
Family Farmers Praise Introduction of Trade Bill That Helps Address Global Food Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, Fair Trade, food crisis, food sovereignty, free trade on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following is a press release from the National Family Farm Coalition about a trade bill recently introduced to Congress which we can finally put our support behind! FAMILY FARMERS PRAISE INTRODUCTION OF TRADE BILL THAT HELPS ADDRESS GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS: U.S. and United Nations Continue to Promote Catastrophic Free Trade Agenda Washington D.C., [...]
“Stop corporate control over food!” Farmers bringing the message to the Food Crisis Summit in Rome are expelled
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, food crisis, Food security, small-scale farmers, Via Campesina on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Farmers protest record profits of corporations while millions across the world are going hungry. Alexandra Strickner, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Rome, Italy, 3 June 2008 Watch the 3 minute video on http://wsftv.net Farmer and civil society leaders carrying out a peaceful action today in Rome, Italy at the FAO Summit on the [...]
The Time has Come for La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, agroecology, food crisis, food prices, food sovereignty, small farmers, Via Campesina on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following article, written by Peter Rosset, is an excellent analysis on some of the causes and potential solutions of the current food crisis. Dr. Rosset is a food rights activist, agroecologist and rural development specialist. Currently working in San Cristobál, Mexico, he is the former co-director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy [...]
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