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The Future of Food

Climate change, speculation and corporate control push the global food system to breaking point

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COVER STORY

The year of living dangerously, Rising Commodity Prices and Extreme Weather Events Threaten Global S
By Michael T. Klare

Get ready for a rocky year.  From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of ...


FEATURES

Frenzy in the food markets
By Jayati Ghosh

So now we are back in another phase of sharply rising global food prices, which is wreaking further devastation on populations in developing countries that have already been ravaged for ...

Arab regimes fear bread intifada
Analysis by Cam McGrath

CAIRO, Jan 18, 2011 (IPS) - "Break my heart but don’t come near my bread," goes an old Arabic proverb. Failure to observe it has often come at a high ...

Agricultural aid in Africa
By Arnold Padilla

Agriculture is considered as the key to employment, growth, and poverty reduction in Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the agricultural sector is said to employ 65% of the labor force and ...


ALTERNATIVES

Can eating less meat curb climate change?”
By Robin Broad, John Cavanagh

Rice farmers in the Philippines go chemical free, community strong. Our search for rootedness has brought us back to the Philippines, back to communities in the south where Robin spent ...

Food for a Rooted Future
By Robin Broad, John Cavanagh

Rice farmers in the Philippines go chemical free, community strong. Our search for rootedness has brought us back to the Philippines, back to communities in the south where Robin spent ...

Food Crises: G20 needs Architects, not Firefi ghters
By Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

BRUSSELS: What should the G-20 do to prepare us to confront food crises, now and in the future? World Bank President Robert Zoellick recently listed nine measures that the G-20 ...


NEWS

APRN will host third regional workshop on CSO and development effectiveness
APRN Secretariat

The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) is hosting the third regional workshop for the Asia and Middle East-North Africa regions on May 2-3, 2011 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshop aims ...

PCFS holds Regional Thematic Consultation on Development Effectiveness of CSOs
Secretariat, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty

Peasant organizations and support non-governmental organizations from all over Asia came together and exposed the intensifying problems on food and land despite the increasing stream of development aid from developed ...

PCFS Holds Asia-wide CSO Conference on Aid and Development Effectiveness in ARD
Secretariat, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty

Various organizations from 11 countries gathered in a consultation on Development Effectiveness of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to gather the insights of civil society groups working with marginalized groups in ...


BOOK REVIEW

Taking Stock of the Movement: Food Justice
By Kate Hoppe

You’ll never look at food the same way again. That is the unspoken promise of the book Food Justice, by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi, respectively the director and farm ...