URGENT ACTION--Save the Hmong Garden in Fresno, CA USA
Sadly, the city voted to turn this garden site into a parking lot.
Click here to view video of the garden
http://www.sunmt.org/hmonggarden10-08elfie.html
Help protect a 4-acre Hmong Garden down in Fresno, CA from becoming a police sub-station. Please read the following email and consider faxing or calling the listed city council members, writing a letter to the editor of the Fresno Bee, or signing this online petition:
UN Report on organic agriculture in Africa
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Seed Saving Conference
Indigenous Permaculture is sponsoring this seed saving conference to provide practical information on how to save seeds and why it is important to save seeds. Topics will include native plant uses, dietary health issues, GMO seed, and the Ecology Center's Bay Area Seed Interchange Library.
Contact Indigenous Permaculture at 415-370-1657 or mayalencanahuat [at] yahoo.com
Food First Backgrounder Vol 14 #2--New Era for Agriculture?
By Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Molly Anderson, and Ivette Perfecto
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On April 7, 2008, as the media headlines focused on falling grain reserves, soaring food prices, and food riots, representatives from 61 nations met in Johannesburg, South Africa to adopt a UN Report that proposed urgently needed solutions to the global food system's systemic problems.
The Food Crisis Bites Back
As depicted by agribusinesses like Monsanto, Cargill, and BP the food crisis is a problem of supply and demand, and can be resolved by increased/efficient agricultural production. Groups like Via Campesino say this is short-sighted and corrosive to local farmers and food sovereignty. They want to see more equitable long-term solutions such as fair trade and sustainable agriculture.
Small farms as a planetary ecological asset: Five key reasons why we should support the revitalization of small farms in the Global South
by Miguel A. Altieri
President, Sociedad Cientifica LatinoAmericana de Agroecologia (SOCLA)
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
Agroecological Alternatives to the New Green Revolution for Africa
Outcome of a joint meeting on climate change, hunger, rural development and agroecological alternatives to the Green Revolution
held in Mali, Africa November 26th – December 2nd 2007
Food First collaborated with other organizations to bring more than 150 participants from 25 African countries and 10 non-African countries. Attendees including farmers, pastoralists, environmentalists, women, youth and development organizations, gathered at the Nyéléni Center in Selingue, Mali from November 26th to December 2nd. Field trips to area farms helped to inform the discussion on:
- Climate change and agriculture, fisheries and pastoralism in Africa
- The fight against hunger
- Development aid for agriculture and rural development in Africa
- African Agroecological Alternatives to the Green Revolution.
Documents from the meetings are available at www.moreandbetter.org
The Green Revolution: Alternatives for Agrarian Development in Mozambique
Conference held from August 17-18, 2007
UNAC Report by Ismael Ossemane
Translated by Naia Dourado
Rediscovering rural development--an opportunity or a reason for concern?
Farm workers’ organizations and, more generally, civil society, demand that rural development be a central focus in national policy. More than 80% of Mozambique’s poor population lives in rural areas. The majority of them are poor and marginalized rural workers without the ability or physical space to survive in the current context of development.