New at www.foodfirst.org
U.S. Family Farmers Applaud Demise Of Doha Negotiations
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2208
New e-book includes an article by Eric Holt-Gimenez—Hungry for Justice: How the World Food System Fails the Poor
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2202
Summer 2008 Food First Backgrounder—New Era for Agriculture
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2201
Summer 2008 Food First News and Views—Hunger, Crisis & Business: The Perfect Storm of Food Aid
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2200

New on the Food First web site, www.foodfirst.org
--Spanish edition of Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. Send this link to your Spanish-speaking friends and colleagues http://www.foodfirst.org/en/taxonomy/term/51
--In the wake of the WTO trade negotiations collapse, 18 Latin American countries meet to address the food crisis
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2187
--WTO Doha Collapse because of Failure to Deliver Development
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2186

New at www.foodfirst.org
--Action Alert: Contact Gov. Schwarzenegger about the 4th heat stroke death in California farm fields this summer at http://www.foodfirst.org/en/actionalerts
--Landless Workers Movements of Brazil (MST) under attack http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2168
--The food crisis fights back at www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2157
--Please fax Bunge, one of the three largest food producers in the world at http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2159

New on Food First’s website, www.foodfirst.org
--The second issue of our e-newsletter for the African Agroecological Alternatives to the Green Revolution, (AAAGRrrr!) just went out to subscribers. To subscribe, go to our web site and sign up.
--Statement from the parallel conference on food held in Rome: Terra Preta: Forum on the Food Crisis, Climate Change, Agrofuels, and Food Security, and
--Their request for organizations to sign on to their concluding recommendations on the world food crisis—Civil Society Statement on the World Food Emergency

New at www.foodfirst.org
• Industrial Transformation of our Food and Fuel System - a powerpoint presentation by Eric Holt-Giménez, presented at the Planet Diversity Conference in Bonn, Germany, May 2008. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/taxonomy/term/43
• Global launch of an international call by social movements and civil society concerning the World Food Emergency–An Invitation from La Via Campesina–Please forward to other groups http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2130

Food First has a new web site:
www.foodfirst.org

Food riots, hoarding of food, grain speculation and escalating price increases all continue to cause distress among the poor. Read Food First articles analyzing the food crisis on our web site. Listen to our economic analysis: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/episodes/episode_index.php
Hear Eric Holt-Giménez interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio and a Voice of America international radio program here. 3. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2108

Food First has a new web site. Contact us at info [at] foodfirst.org to tell us what you like about it and also let us know if you have suggestions for making it easier to use.

Food riots have exploded into public consciousness as food prices have risen dramatically throughout the world in recent months. Read Food First’s analysis of this emerging crisis at www.foodfirst.org

New on YouTube! Food First Executive Director, Eric Holt-Giménez speaking to a UC Berkeley class on rural development—the green revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0m5sz26xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyife558z8

1. Bakers March on Washington to Protest Rising Wheat Prices
2. Rising Food Prices, Rising Food Protests
3. The Cooperative Grocery of the East Bay is now open to shop the shelves
4. The Learning Farm: teaching street youths to grow food in Indonesia

1. Bakers March on Washington to Protest Rising Wheat Prices

1. Legal Mexican “guest workers” fired for striking against slave-like conditions in Amite, Louisiana
2. Whole Foods Market refuses to meet with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about the human rights violations in the Florida tomato fields that supply the company
3. South Africa’s Abalimi Bezekhaya ('Planters of the Home') Stimulates Urban Agriculture and Community in Cape Town

1. Legal Mexican “guest workers” fired for striking against slave-like conditions in Amite, Louisiana

1. Join together with organizations and individuals calling for a U.S. moratorium on biofuels
2. Plant a Row for the Hungry—Providing local food to food banks
3. Fuel at the Farm Gate – New tools for local fuel production
New at www.foodfirst.org
Thousands of People Protest NAFTA and defend Food Sovereignty in Mexico

1. Join together with organizations and individuals calling for a U.S. moratorium on biofuels