Food First joins 20 labor, environmental, family farm and faith groups in supporting a just-introduced U.S. Trade Bill
Media Release
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Contact: Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director, Food First
202-288-8699
The Gold Rush in Ghana and Myth of Sustainable Economic Development
May 30, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact Eric Holt-Giménez at 510-654-4400, ext 227 or e-mail eholtgim
17th of April: International Day of Peasant's Struggle
Farmers mobilize around the world and propose solutions to the food price
crisis
(Jakarta, 17 April 1008)
Small farmer's organizations and their allies are celebrating today the International Day of Peasant's Struggle commemorating the massacre of 19 landless workers, women and men struggling for land in Brazil 12 years ago. Today dozens of groups, communities and organizations in about 20 countries around the world are organizing farmer's markets, conferences, direct actions, cultural activities, demonstrations... to defend their right to food and to feed their communities.
When Renewable isn’t Sustainable: Agrofuels’ and the Inconvenient Truths behind U.S. Energy Independence
Contact: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Eric Holt-Giménez, Food First Executive Director
510.654.4400 ext. 227
Cell 202-288-8699
eholtgim@foodfirst.org
March 20, 2008
FOOD FIRST RELEASES POLICY BRIEF ON AGROFUELS AND THE 2007 US ENERGY BILL
Report highlights growing hunger, energy dependency on Global South, corporate control
Environmental and Human Rights Groups call for a Biofuels (Agrofuels) Moratorium
For Immediate Release Contact: Cameron Scott of RAN 415.659.0541
Contact: Eric Holt-Gimenez of Food First 510-654-4400 ext 227.
January 29, 2008
U.S.-based coalition calls for a moratorium on U.S. incentives for biofuels
December 17, 2007
Contact: Eric Holt-Gimenez
510-654-4400 ext 227
Spanish and Portuguese translations below.
A coalition of U.S organizations is calling for an Immediate Moratorium on U.S. incentives for agrofuels, U.S. agroenergy monocultures and global trade in agrofuels. The Coalition is asking your organization to help strengthen the Call by signing on.
NEW REPORT QUESTIONS FAIR TRADE COFFEE’S CORPORATE SUCCESS
Contact: Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
e-mail: eholtgim (at) foodfirst.org
Phone: 510-654-4400 ext 227
http://www.foodfirst.org/node/1794
Oakland, Ca -- 14 November 2007 – Fair Trade Certified coffee is selling better than ever: in 2005, more than $500 million in fair trade coffee was sold, up exponentially from $50 million in 2000. Most of this growth comes from big corporate players like Starbucks, McDonalds, Dunk’n Doughnuts, Costco, and Nestle entering the Fair Trade market. An explosion in Fair Trade sales is great for the world’s poverty-stricken coffee farmers, right? In a new investigative report entitled Fair To The Last Drop: Corporate Challenges to Fair Trade, Food First takes a deeper look at what Fair Trade’s corporate success means for coffee farmers.
World Food Day 2007: The Right to Food is Food Sovereignty
Bonn, Germany, October 16th 2007 — On this World Food Day 2007, with the theme of the Right to Food, which was recognized as a universal human right in 1948 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, over 850 million people around the world, particularly in least developed countries, suffer from hunger and malnutrition. For IFOAM, the Right to Food is the right of every person to have regular access to sufficient, nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable food for an active, healthy life. It is the right to feed oneself in dignity and to produce healthy and culturally appropriate food through ecologically, socially and economically sound methods, defining one’s own food systems, rather than the right to be fed. This counts for each and every individual, as well as for communities and regions.
Congress Urged to Ditch Energy Bill Renewable Fuel Standard
October 10, 2007
For Immediate Release
For more information contact:
Nick Berning, 202-222-0748
Coalition of groups sends letter to Pelosi, Reid prior to meeting of energy bill conference committee
WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders are being urged by environmental, family farmer, and social justice organizations to ensure that a radical biofuels provision passed by the Senate be left out of final energy legislation under consideration this fall.