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The Time has Come for La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
The following article, written by Peter Rosset, is an excellent analysis on some of the causes and potential solutions of the current food crisis. Dr. Rosset is a food rights activist, agroecologist...
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“Stop corporate control over food!” Farmers bringing the message to the Food...
Farmers protest record profits of corporations while millions across the world are going hungry. Alexandra Strickner, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Rome, Italy, 3 June 2008 Watch...
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Family Farmers Praise Introduction of Trade Bill That Helps Address Global...
The following is a press release from the National Family Farm Coalition about a trade bill recently introduced to Congress which we can finally put our support behind! FAMILY FARMERS PRAISE...
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Women and the Food Crisis
All too often the impact of unfair agriculture and free trade policies falls most severely on the shoulders of women. Grassroots International is a human rights and international development...
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Five Reasons We Should Support Small Farms in the Global South
The Via Campesina, the largest organization of small farmers in the world, has long advocated for changes in our agriculture and trade policies. For the past decade, they have been promoting the...
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Fair Trade Minimum Prices for Small Farmers Criticized: And a $500 Billion*...
I’m dashing off to the Farm Aid Concert in Mansfield, where Equal Exchange is the official coffee sponsor, so I’ll have to be brief. But I wanted to thank everyone who responded to Nick’s posting,...
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Step up to the Plate on World Food Day: A Call to Action to End the Food Crisis
One billion people around the world face hunger and food insecurity. Every time I hear that statistic (and it keeps growing), it never ceases to astound me. I’m struck both by the fact that in today’s...
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President-elect Obama presented with urgent “Call to Action” to end food crisis
Our food system is broken. One billion people across the globe face hunger and food insecurity. On October 15th, World Food Day, a group of food, farm, labor, and justice organizations from across...
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Fair Trade, Food Sovereignty and the Food Crisis
Njari, Tanzania, 2006. A meeting held by the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union As the year 2008 comes to a close, the world must cope with a recent assertion made by the Food and Agriculture...
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