G8 Urged to Reject Another 'Green Revolution' U.S. working group on the food crisis urges G8 to reject failed green revolution policies for Africa
"'Business as Usual' Will Not Solve Global Hunger Crisis"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 16, 2009
WASHINGTON - April 16 - The U.S. Working Group on the Food Crisis, a group representing anti-hunger, family farm, community food security, environmental, international aid, labor, food justice, consumers and other food system actors, urges the G8 at the upcoming Agricultural Ministerial in Treviso, Italy to reject the failed policies of the Green Revolution. A recent landmark report backed by the UN and World Bank argues for agroecological and sustainable agriculture, rather than reliance on chemical-intensive practices and genetic engineering.
Obama Administration's stimulus package: Small Farm revitalization is a missed opportunity
Press Release -- April 17, 2009
Contact:
Eric Holt-Giménez, executive director of Food First
510-502-5050 (cell)
Miguel Altieri, University of California, Department of Environmental Science
510-642-9802 (work)
In a report by Food First released on April 17, 2009 Professor Miguel Altieri of the Department of Environmental Science states that "despite the fact that so-called "green jobs" will be a key economic driver during the Obama reign, small-scale and organic agriculture has been totally left out of the economic recovery strategy."
Expose Corporate Manipulation of Global Food Prices at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
For Immediate Release 4/15/09
Contact:
John E. Peck, Family Farm Defenders #608-260-0900
Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition #202-543-5675
U.S. Family Farmers Mark International Day of Peasant Struggles, April 17th, With A Protest Against Commodity Speculation
Join Other Activists to Expose Corporate Manipulation of Global Food Prices at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
Fri. April 17th 11:30 am Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), 30 S. Wacker Dr.
Open Letter to Honorable President Barack Obama from Mexico's National Campaign "Without Corn There is No Country"
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President Obama, Welcome to Mexico
On the occasion of your visit to our country, we welcome you in the name of
farmers’, human rights, environmental, and sustainable development
organizations, as well as the thousands of citizens that participate in Mexico's national campaign "Without corn there is no country."
1. We, the people of Mexico, also want to renegotiate NAFTA to
protect our corn, the jobs of millions of farmers, and the way of life
in the Mexican countryside
2. Towards a new era of cooperation between the people of Mexico
183 Civil Society Groups Urge President Obama and the U.S. Congress to Curb Food Speculation to Address the Urgent Hunger Crisis
Letter demands immediate action to prevent a repeat of last year's food price crisis
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March 24, 2009
Contact: Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
510-654-4400 ext 227 or 510-502-5050
Leading Food Advocates To Visit Farmworker Community Dubbed “Ground Zero for Modern Slavery”
Delegation to shine light on urgent need for reform in Florida agriculture industry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 3, 2009
Contact
Damara Luce, Director, Just Harvest USA
damara@justharvestusa.org
(510) 725-8752
"Next Generation Biofuels": Bursting The New "Green" Bubble Letter challenges unrealistic promises from an unsustainable industry
For Immediate Release January 15, 2009
CONTACTS:
o Dr. Rachel Smolker, Agrofuels Specialist, Global Justice Ecology Project,
Email to: rsmolker@globaljusticeecology.org, Office: +1 802 482 2689, Mobile: +1 802 735 7794
o Dr. John Peck, Executive Director, Family Farm Defenders,
jepeck@wisc.edu +1 608 260 0900
o Kathy Jo Wetter, ETC Group, kjo@etcgroup.org, tel: +1 919 688 7302
President-elect Obama presented with urgent “Call to Action” to end food crisis
Experts advise that economic reform must include sound farm and food policy
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For immediate release
December 15, 2008
Contact: Christina Schiavoni, (212) 629-9788
Christina@whyhunger.org
Kathy Ozer, (202) 543-5675, kozer@nffc.net
As food banks scramble to respond to a dramatic increase in demand this holiday season, while unemployment surges and farmers face plummeting crop prices, a broad sector of groups are calling on the incoming Obama administration to put hunger and the global food crisis front and center on its list of top priorities.
RAMPANT COMMODITIES SPECULATION ENDANGERING THE WORLD’S POOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACTS:
Eric Holt-Gimenez
510-502-5050
eholtgim@foodfirst.org
David Kane
202-832-1780
dkane@maryknoll.org
NEW YORK, September 24, 2008
Rampant speculation in the commodities futures markets has endangered the lives of millions of the world’s poor by contributing to a doubling or tripling of food prices according to over 60 international social justice organizations.