THE WALL STREET MELTDOWN: THE VIEW FROM ASIA
By Walden Bello*
For many, the Wall Street crisis is a replay, though on a much larger
scale, of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which brought down the red- hot "tiger economies" of the East. The shocking absence of Wall Street
regulation brings back awful memories of the elimination of capital
controls by East Asian governments, which were under pressure from the
International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. That move
triggered a tsunami of speculative capital onto Asian markets that
The U.S. Food System Was Also Deregulated in the 1990s and the Stakes are Much Higher than the Current Economic Meltdown
An Editorial Comment by
Larry Matlack, President, American Agriculture Movement
September 24, 2008
The Financial Crisis and the Food Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin
By Annie Shattuck
New documentary on the roots of Mexican migration to the U.S. released by Food First
Caminos: The Immigrants Trail traces a group of U.S. and Canadian citizens retracing the immigrant trail from El Paso, Texas to Oaxaca, Mexico. This documentary, based on our summer 2007 trip led by Food First executive director, Eric Holt-Giménez, reveals some of the factors that drive these migrants to leave their families and risk their lives to seek work in the U.S. The entire funding for this documentary was provided by individual donors who responded enthusiastically to our telephone appeal last spring.
U.S. FAMILY FARMERS APPLAUD DEMISE OF DOHA NEGOTIATIONS
American Farmers Support India and Developing Countries Right to Food Sovereignty
Washington D.C. (August 13, 2008) - The National Family Farm Coalition welcomed with elation the recent failure of the Doha Round negotiations at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. NFFC, an organization representing family farmers in the United States and a member of Via Campesina, an international coalition of family farmers, peasants, and farm workers, has been at the forefront since 1993 of protesting the disastrous inclusion of agriculture in the world trading system.
Civil Society Statement on the World Food Emergency: Sign on Letter
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No More "Failures-as-Usual"!
DEVELOPMENT REPORT NO 18: Ghana: Gold Strike in the Breadbasket
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By Albert T. Armstrong
April 2008
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DEVELOPMENT REPORT No 17: Fair to the Last Drop: The Corporate Challenges to Fair Trade Coffee
Fair to the Last Drop:
The Corporate Challenges to Fair Trade Coffee
-By Eric Holt-Giménez, Ian Bailey, and Devon Sampson
Coffee, Poverty and Crises
Coffee has long stood for both privilege and poverty. Since the time of the colonial coffee booms of the mid 1800s, coffee has been one of the world's most valuable export commodities, and today is among the top five in gross value of world trade.