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Buy Fair Trade Gifts for your loved ones and support Food First

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:28:23 -0500

"Shop to raise money for Food First! When you shop at the Global Exchange Fair Trade Online Store this holiday (now through Dec. 31, 2008) our friends at Global Exchange will donate 10% of each sale to Food First. Their store offers socially conscious, Fair Trade gifts from around the world. In order to make your sale count, make sure to use this special link to the Global Exchange Fair Trade Online Store:

Global Exchange Fair Trade

URGENT ACTION--Save the Hmong Garden in Fresno, CA USA

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:16:38 -0500

Sadly, the city voted to turn this garden site into a parking lot.
Click here to view video of the garden
http://www.sunmt.org/hmonggarden10-08elfie.html

Help protect a 4-acre Hmong Garden down in Fresno, CA from becoming a police sub-station. Please read the following email and consider faxing or calling the listed city council members, writing a letter to the editor of the Fresno Bee, or signing this online petition:

SIGN PETITION

There never was a better time to end hunger--equitably, sustainably, and permanently.

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:53:24 -0500

On November 4th, a groundswell of enthusiasm and goodwill opened a door toward a brighter future for our nation and the world. President-elect Barack Obama put it succinctly in his acceptance speech when he said, "This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change."

UN Report on organic agriculture in Africa

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:16:20 -0500

Putting Food First in the Constitution of Ecuador

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:21:57 -0400

by Karla Pena

Unprecedented!
Ecuador established Food Sovereignty in their Constitution approved by a referendum vote of 64% of the population on September 28, 2008. The people of Ecuador have the right to "Good Living," a healthy environment ecologically harmonized to guarantee the right to food. The State will enforce the established rights to aid in recent food price increase and localize their food systems by supporting their small and medium farmers in sustainable development (Agroecology).

Is this new constitution a prototype that other countries can look to?

Food First News & Views Fall 2008, Vol. 30 #110

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:50:57 -0400

TWIN TSUNAMIS?

The World Food Program described the global food crisis as a “silent tsunami” surging over an unaware populace, helpless in the face of massive destruction. The financial crisis—rapidly going global—now threatens to increase everyone’s vulnerability to hunger. The compound
effect of the twin crises seems overwhelming.

Food First Backgrounder Vol. 14 #3: The Food Crisis Comes Home: Empty food banks, rising costs--symtoms of a hungrier nation

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:37:22 -0400

Fall 2008

By Heidi Conner, Juliana Mandell, Meera Velu and Annie Shattuck

The food crisis is worsening. The UN World Food Program predicts a jump in the number of hungry people in the world from 860 million to more than one billion people—one of every six people in the world. Retail prices of food in the U.S. increased four percent last year, driven by a combination of speculation, high oil prices, agrofuel consumption, a weak dollar, climatic

Food First Trustee, LaDonna Redmond speaking on Inner City Access (Not!) to Healthy Food on World Food Day

rjonasse — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:30:44 -0400

Food First Fellow, Raj Patel speaking about U.S. Democracy on World Food Day, October 16, 2008

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:37:02 -0400

Click Here to Watch

World Food Day Video Link

rjonasse — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:31:49 -0400