Winter 2004, Vol. 27, No. 92 For thousands of years, small farmers have grown food for their communities, planting diverse crops in healthy soil, recycling organic matter, following nature's rainfall patterns, and maintaining the earth's biodiversity.
The Three Gorges dam project in China is probably the biggest and most controversial construction project on the planet.
As globalization devastates rural communities around the world, farmers' organizations are coming together around the rallying cry of food sovereignty.
Trade agreements are supposed to benefit us all. Instead, since they've been in effect, life has become much worse for millions of working Americans.
Farming communities have made clear demands for an end to the agricultural provisions within NAFTA and withdrawal from the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
The US government has created incentive structures that favor large scale farming operations; in these structures, small family farmers have been marginalized.
This book tells the story of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, in which millions of landless men and women have secured over 20 million acres of farmland.
Since the late 1970s, more than one million people in Brazil organized peaceful protests to force the Brazilian government to redistribute 20m acres of farmland.
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.
Voices from the South is a collection of views and comments by leading voices of southern opposition to genetic engineering.
Winter 2003, Vol. 26, No. 88 If we believed everything we saw in the media, 2002 would have seemed a very gloomy year indeed. Yet, we find reasons to be optimistic about the rapidly gelling global movement for human dignity of which we are a part.
Thanks to soaring demand from the US, Japan and Western Europe, shrimp are now raised on an industrial scale in tropical countries.
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