Policy Brief No. 16: The World Food Crisis What’s behind it and What we can do about it

by Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D.

“A Silent Tsunami” The World Food Program’s description of the global food crisis raises the specter of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.

The Doha Collapse: Time to get agriculture out of the WTO

Policy Brief No. 15
by Rick Jonasse
August 2008

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The Agrofuels Trojan Horse: Biotechnology and the Corporate Domination of Agriculture

Policy Brief No. 14
by Annie Shattuck
April 2008

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Food First Policy Brief No. 13

By Eric Holt-Giménez and Isabella Kenfield
March 2008

When Renewable Isn’t Sustainable: Agrofuels and the Inconvenient Truth behind the 2007 U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act

Food First Policy Brief No.12

Food First Policy Brief No. 12

Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Ph.D., Miguel A. Altieri, Ph.D., and Peter Rosset, Ph.D.


Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
October 2006

Policy Brief No.11: Famine and the Future of Food Security in North Korea

by Christine Ahn


Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
May 2005

Policy Brief No. 10: Shining India? Economic Liberalization and Rural Poverty in the 1990s

by Anders Riel Müller and Raj Patel


Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
May 2004

Policy Brief No.9: Agricultural Liberalization in China: Curbing the State and Creating Cheap Labor

by Maximilian Eisenburger and Raj Patel


Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
September 2003

Policy Brief No.8: Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Brazil's Rural Poor: Consolidating Inequality

Policy Brief No. 8

Amanda Cassel and Raj Patel


Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
August 2003

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Policy Brief No.7: Agricultural Trade liberalization and Mexico

Gisele Henriques and Raj Patel
August 2003

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Executive Summary