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Food and Climate: of Sovereignty and Development
March-April 2010

The EDM March-April 2010 issue is out. It highlights food, agriculture and climate issues.

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Cover Story

Proposed Global Land Guidelines
Author: Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo

Peddling “Acceptable” Land Grabbing Food insecurity remains an immense problem troubling many

50 Years of Meaningless Research is Enough!
Author: Felix Canimo

Roundtable Discussion Tackled Why IRRI Should be Closed Leaders of farmer’s organization

Statement

FIFTY REASONS WHY IRRI SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN
Author: RESIST! Agrochemical TNCs

While the whole world is grappling with the dreadful effects of climate change, the world’s premier rice center, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), offers ...

Interview

The North’s Destructive Model
Author: Tony Tujan Jr

After the failure of the UN’s climate summit, the international community has to pick up the pieces and find a new approach to ...

Special Feature

Women in Agriculture Food Rights and Wrongs
Author:Molly D. Anderson

Food sovereignty encompasses many of the measures that are needed for women to achieve their full human rights, including the right to food. ...

Gaviotas: Village Of Hope
Author: Seth Biderman & Christian Casillas

For three decades, the village of Gaviotas has worked to build a sustainable, imaginative community in the eastern savannahs of Colombia. They have planted 20,000 acres of pines, creating shade ...

The Soils of War
Author: GRAIN

The US’s agricultural reconstruction work in Afghanistan and Iraq not only gives easy entry to US agribusiness and pushes neoliberal policies, something that has always ...

News

Climate Activists and People’s Movements Meet in Cochabamba for Alternative Climate Summit
Author: Reileen Dulay

The failure of governments meeting in the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to conclude a strong and just deal for global climate action brought widespread disappointment. Dissatisfied with the

Public Water Sector, Not Private Power, Should Manage Angat Dam
Author: Water for the People Network

Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) said that the water sector, instead of private power companies, should take the lead in managing the facilities of the Angat Dam ...

AS EL NIÑO THREATENS IRRIGATION SUPPLY
Author: IBON Foundation, Inc.

Water used by golf courses can supply 1,500 hectares of rice paddies per day As the ...

RP Jobs, Quality of Work in 2009 Worst in 50 Years
Author: BON Foundation, Inc.

RP JOBS, QUALITY OF WORK IN 2009 WORST IN 50 YEARS IBON F

Globalization

The Growing Movement for Publicly OwnedBanks
Author: Ellen Brown

We the people have given away our sovereign money-creating power to private, for-profit lending nstitutions, which have used it to siphon wealth from the productive economy. Some states are moving ...