
Will a Bailout for Wall Street Spell Hunger for the World?
Blog | Amanda El-Khoury and Annie Shattuck | Oct 2, 2008
Rising food prices are proving deadly for the world’s poor. Driven by a combination of speculation, high oil prices, agrofuels…
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Rising food prices are proving deadly for the world’s poor. Driven by a combination of speculation, high oil prices, agrofuels…
For many, the Wall Street crisis is a replay, though on a much larger scale, of the 1997 Asian financial crisis,…
The vultures of corporate America are closing in on the carcass of cheap food. With corn selling at $5.86 a…
Food prices are increasing by the day, countries are cutting trade in some basic grains, and food riots, marches, and…
It was just a matter of time… and not long at that. The world food crisis and the explosion of…
In December 2007, the Energy Independence and Security Act passed the House and Senate, and was signed into law by…
On Thursday January 31st, thousands of people took the streets of Mexico City as part of the mobilization to demand…
Biofuels are the subject of much heated debate. In the hands of big business, just how green are they? And…
The USDA has done it again. Remember when the U.S. Department of Agriculture tried to relax organic standards for the…
United Students for Fair Trade, a national network of more than 100 student activist groups, held its fourth annual convergence…
Sélingué, Mali, February 23-27, 2007 “Who sets the agenda for Food Sovereignty? The people deprived of Food Sovereignty must take…
Special to the Des Moines Register Biofuels, derived from everything from corn to French-fry grease, are being widely touted in…