Exploding the Biofuel Myths
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jul 6, 2007
Biofuels are the subject of much heated debate. In the hands of big business, just how green are they? And…
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Organic Coffee Crisis?
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Devon Sampson, Eric Holt-Giménez and Ian Bailey | Apr 1, 2007
Worldwide, 25 million people earn their livelihoods from coffee, supplying an estimated 500 billion cups of coffee to consumers each year.
Biofuels: Who suffers? Who benefits?
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez and Kevin Fingerman | Feb 11, 2007
Special to the Des Moines Register Biofuels, derived from everything from corn to French-fry grease, are being widely touted in…
Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rainforest Destruction, Second Edition
Book | Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer | Sep 1, 2005
This books describes how the international banking system, modern agriculture, rainforest ecology, and the struggles of the poor interact to bring down the forest.
Going Local on a Global Scale: Rethinking Food Trade in the Era of Climate Change, Dumping & Rural Poverty
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Kristen Schwind | Jul 1, 2005
Re-building local food systems requires rethinking the role of trade.
Famine and the Future of Food Security in North Korea
Policy Brief | Christine Ahn | May 1, 2005
This report calls on the international community to help North Koreans achieve true food security--not isolate, vilify, strong-arm or exploit them.
Shining India? Economic liberalization and rural poverty in the 1990s
Policy Brief | Anders Riel Muller and Raj Patel | Jan 5, 2004
In 1991, precipitated by high levels of debt, India officially committed to full-fledged neoliberal reforms when the Indian government signed World Bank and IMF loans.
Worse Than the World Bank? Export Credit Agencies: The Secret Engine of Globalization
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Aaron Goldzimer | Dec 1, 2003
The Three Gorges dam project in China is probably the biggest and most controversial construction project on the planet.
Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Mexico
Policy Brief | Gisele Henriques and Raj Patel | Aug 5, 2003
Farming communities have made clear demands for an end to the agricultural provisions within NAFTA and withdrawal from the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Brazil’s Rural Poor: Consolidating inequality
Policy Brief | Amanda Cassel and Raj Patel | Jan 8, 2003
Everything about Brazil is big – its area, its population, its economy, its inequality. The poorest Brazilians live in rural areas, working in and around agriculture.
The Profits of Famine: Southern Africa’s Long Decade of Hunger
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Raj Patel | Oct 1, 2002
Colin Powell recently met with the Vatican to persuade the Zambian government to accept US-supplied genetically modified food aid.
earthsummit.biz: The Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development
Book | Joshua Karliner and Kenny Bruno | Jan 1, 2002
Transnational corporations increasingly use their resources to deter regulation, suppress opposing voices, and try to buy civil society's acquiescence with slick PR.
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