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.
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Genetic Pollution in Mexico’s Center of Maize Diversity
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | ETC Group | Apr 1, 2002
Controversy erupted last year after genetically modified maize was discovered among farmers' traditional maize varieties in two remote Mexican states.
Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba
Book | Fernando Funes Luis García, Martin Bourque, Nilda Pérez and Peter Rosset | Jan 15, 2002
This book tells the story of Cuba’s remarkable journey from food crisis to sustainability.
2001 Annual Report
Food First News & Views | Food First | Jan 1, 2002
Winter 2002, Vol. 25, No. 84 As we write to you, war rages on and the echo of the September 11th tragedy remains audible. Meanwhile, tremendous resources—which will never be available to fight hunger and poverty--are diverted to defense budgets.
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.
Tides Shift on Agrarian Reform: New Movements Show the Way
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Peter Rosset | Dec 1, 2001
Only rarely are we privileged to bear personal witness at historical turning points that symbolize and crystallize a changing of the tides.
Freedom to Trade? Trading Away American Family Farms
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Anuradha Mittal | Oct 1, 2001
At the last WTO ministerial held in Seattle in 1999, negotiators were confronted by 70,000 protestors...
World Forum on Food Sovereignty in Havana
Food First News & Views | Food First | Oct 1, 2001
Fall 2001, Vol. 24, No. 83 - Policies imposed by the World Bank, IMF, and WTO, and promoted by transnational corporations, have widened the gap between wealthy and poor countries and accentuated the unequal distribution of earnings within countries.
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).
Water as Commodity: The Wrong Prescription
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Maude Barlow | Jul 1, 2001
Under the current system of market-driven economic globalization, there are no limits placed on where capital can go to 'harvest' nature.
The 2001 Economic Human Rights Bus Tour: The movement gains momentum
Food First News & Views | Food First | Jul 1, 2001
Summer 2001, Vol. 24, No. 82 Throughout California, testifiers came forward to speak about violations of their human rights in the world's most affluent society.
Get on the Bus! Join the California Economic Human Rights Bus Tour
Food First News & Views | Food First | May 1, 2001
Spring 2001, Vol. 24, No. 81 To build a movement for economic human rights in the United States, Food First is organizing the 2001 Economic Human Rights Bus Tour.
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