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Playing the Blame Game: Who is Behind the Food Crisis?

Carol Schachet — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:37:28 +0000

Research presented in the Oakland Institute's recent publication "The Blame Game: Who is behind the World Food Crisis?" pokes holes through the myth that the "economic prosperity" experienced by an emerging minority in India has been a major contributor to the dramatic increase in global food prices.

Livelihood Rights: The Right to Exist

Saulo Araujo — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:47:12 +0000

Members of Grassroots International's partner La Via Campesina -- an international network of peasants, indigenous peoples, fishers, pastoralists, women, and youth -- gathered in late June in Jakarta, Indonesia to defend their right to exist, and called for a UN Convention on the Rights of Peasants. (Below, see their final declaration)

Under intense threat from the expansion of agro-fuels in South America and Indonesia, militarization in Colombia and South Korea, and increasing food prices, rural families are voicing a predicament that affects all communities.

The Hidden Face of the Global Food Crisis

Paul Venuti — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:22:54 +0000

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Massive Farmers' Rights Violations

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The Hidden Face of the Global Food Crisis: Massive Farmers Rights Violations

Empty Policies for Empty Plates

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:04:51 +0000

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Press Release of the Civil Society Forum Terra Preta

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A Crisis of Empty Promises

Saulo Araujo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:14:15 +0000

Our partners in Guatemala have told us: the current food crisis will continue unless we guarantee the land, water and seeds rights of communities necessary to grow food. The same message is being echoed in Brazil, Mexico and many neighborhoods in the U.S.

In two separate statements, Guatemala's National Peasant and Indigenous Coordination (CONIC) and Brazil's Small Producers Movement (MPA) put forth food sovereignty as a solution to the crisis: the right of communities to produce food for local markets and for consumers to have access to local healthy foods. Both organizations denounce the expansion of industrial agriculture and growing control of agribusinesses for contributing to the hunger of urban and rural communities.

The World Food Crisis in the Palestinian Context: Rising Prices under Occupation and a Call to Action

Salena Tramel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:22:45 +0000

As the heads of states meet with the Secretary General in Rome this week to discuss world food security in the light of climate change and bioenergy, Palestinians are experiencing a different dimension of the food crisis. Food is of the most basic of all human rights, and in much of the Palestinian context, is being systematically denied to civilians.

Our partners in the West Bank and Gaza recently released a call to action, which we have reproduced here. We have also posted a copy of the open letter to the conference organizers referenced below.

Open Letter to the High-Level Conference On World Food Security

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:12:02 +0000

To the conference organizers (FAO, CGIAR, IFAD, WFP); the Heads of States; the General Secretary of the United Nations: bear responsibility to protect the Palestinian people who are exposed to poverty and hunger by the Israeli occupying forces.

Speculators and Traders Gambling on Food

Maria Aguiar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:52:59 +0000

There's a scary betting game going on. Here's how it goes: Speculators bet that food prices go up (and drive them up in the process). If they're right, they reap a profit. If they're right, the price of food for families skyrockets.

Human Right to Food

Playing the Blame Game: Who is Behind the Food Crisis?

Livelihood Rights: The Right to Exist

The Hidden Face of the Global Food Crisis

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Empty Policies for Empty Plates

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A Crisis of Empty Promises

The World Food Crisis in the Palestinian Context: Rising Prices under Occupation and a Call to Action

Open Letter to the High-Level Conference On World Food Security

Speculators and Traders Gambling on Food

Farmers bringing message to the Food Crisis Summit in Rome expelled

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Civil Society forum calls for Rethinking of the Global Food System

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