Policy Briefs

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.

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 Restructuring and Concentration in the United States: Who wins, who loses?

Policy Brief | Raj Patel and Sanaz Memarsadeghi | Aug 1, 2003

The US government has created incentive structures that favor large scale farming operations; in these structures, small family farmers have been marginalized.

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.

Economic Human Rights Bus Tour, California, May 29-31, 2001

Policy Brief | Jeff Perlstein | Sep 1, 2001

The policies of the US government perpetuate growing income disparities, often in clear violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).