Food First News & Views Fall 2008, Vol. 30 #110
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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.
Hunger, Crisis, and Business: The perfect storm of food aid
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At the June 1-4, 2008 FAO Food Security Summit in Rome, representatives of 181 countries reaffirmed their commitment to food security goals from previous summits held in 1996 and "Five Years Later." Delegates voiced concern about the lack of progress toward the UN Millennium Development Goals. That's the good news.
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Food First News & Views Spring 2008-Highlights of Food First's 2007 activities and plans for 2008
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Food First's work falls under three program areas aimed at integrating Food Sovereignty across both rural and urban and spanning local, national and international arenas. Programs include:
--Assisting with the building of local agri-foods systems,
--Accompanying farmers forging food sovereignty,
--Supporting groups struggling to democratize development including land, resources and markets.
Food First News and Views Winter 2007
Food Sovereignty and Agroecology: Growing Movements for Constructive Resistance
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up.” — Dr. Martin Luther King
As we witness the global assault on our food systems by corporate profiteers, it is easy to be overwhelmed. But at Food First, we believe Dr. King’s bold words still ring as clear today as they did 40 years ago. What “profit-centered” agrifoods corporations are busy tearing down—rural livelihoods, healthy diets, forests, soils, and water sources—“people-centered” movements for Agroecology and food sovereignty are building up.
Food, Fuel and Green Revolutions: The U.S. 2007 Farm Bill slogs forward
The 2007 Farm and Food Bill is mired in the no-man's land between the recently passed House version ("Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007) and the yet to be agreed upon Senate version, which lawmakers say may take well into October. Then the two versions must be reconciled in House—Senate conference before going to the president to be signed into law—perhaps as late as next year. Every step of the way, Republicans and Democrats, urban and rural lawmakers will fight over what is to be done and who will pay for it.
Immigration, the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill, and the Transformation of our Food and Fuel Systems
Immigration, the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill, and the Transformation of our Food and Fuel Systems
The current immigration legislation attempts to balance the fears of a post-9/11 electorate with the management of the largest single migration in the modern history of the Americas. At this writing, this bill focuses on symptoms rather than causes and faces strong opposition from all sides.
2006 Annual Report
Food Sovereignty Tops Food First's Agenda
This year Food First dug in its heels for Food Sovereignty defined as people's right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through equitable, ecologically sound and sustainable methods. Food sovereignty is our right to determine our own food systems. It puts people - not international markets or corporate megaprofits - at the heart of food and development policies.
Good Reporting? The Economist Attacks Ethical Consumption
Good Reporting?
The Economist Attacks Ethical Consumption
A Dec. 7th article in The Economist entitled "Good food?" attacks organic food, fair trade and buying local with the sub-title, "If you think you can make the planet better by clever shopping, think again. You might make it worse." The arguments presented are provocative, but largely gratuitous.
2005 Annual Report
30 Years of Fighting for the Right of All to Feed Themselves and Their Families
Thirty Years of Fighting for the Right to Feed Oneself
This year marks the thirtieth anniversary for the Institute for Food and Development Policy, founded by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins “to engage in research, studies, seminars, and the preparation and dissemination of publications and other educational activities in the field of agricultural policy, food distribution, world development, and foreign and domestic policy issues relating thereto.”