Rising Food Prices, Rising Food Protests
by Loren Peabody
Food riots are currently on the rise across the globe, caused less by shortfalls in world food production than by the rising food prices that increased 45 percent in the past 9 months (July 2007 through March 2008), according to the FAO.
Graduation speech to ALBA farm training graduates
English translation of a graduation address to the ALBA Graduates of the Education Program for Small Farmers -- Salinas, California, April 5, 2008
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director, Food First
Farmer Experiences with Food Shortage in Southern Ethiopia
By Mulugeta L Handino, Field Researcher and Development Expert with Food First
Postcards from the Heartland - Part 3
A Local Revolution
by Ingrid Evjen-Elias
In the third installment of the Postcards from the Heartland series, Food First intern Ingrid Evjen-Elias chronicles what she learned during her 500-mile bike trip through the American Midwest about the troubles facing small farmers and their innovation.
Read Part I and Part II of the series.
Growing Hunger: The Struggle of Small Farmers in the 21st Century
Michael Courville - Writer, and Jennifer Tong - Photographer
© All Images copyright Michael Courville and Jennifer Tong
Postcards from the Heartland: Just a Stopping Place
This is the second segment in Bay Area native and Food First intern Ingrid Evjen-Elias' description of her 500-mile bike trip with friend Katharine Jolda through Midwest farm country.
