International Day of Peasants’ Struggle!
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Today’s the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, and there’ll be over 60 actions taking place around the world to celebrate it.
Archive for October, 2009
Now with added mortality!
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I’m in the land of Diet Coke Plus, the absurd end-point to the fad of adding nutrients to food from which those same nutrients were systematically stripped out.
Robert Zoellick Makes Me Sick
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Haiti and The King Canute of Food
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I’m a little disappointed with The Observer today. I’d been holding back on posting all my thoughts about food riots so that I could pull them out of the hat today with a comment piece in their pages. My article began with worries about globalisation and the consequences of food riots in Haiti.
GM Crops Yield the same, or less, than conventional
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Like the title says. The report, from the Soil Association, here. Yet it’s the GM lobby that’ll be using the food crisis as an opportunity to pimp out their unsavoury product, all the evidence of its benefits notwithstanding.
How to Think About Food Riots
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Via Campesina on The Global Food Crisis
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So here’s a response from Via Campesina to the food price crisis. I imagine that in the wake of the food riots, the temptation to say ‘told you so’ must have been overwhelming to the representatives of farmers’ and landless peoples’ movements around the world.
Missing Agflation’s Big Picture
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The story of rice
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The price of rice recently increased by 30% in a single day. But not everywhere. Places affected were in South East Asia, places like the Philippines and Indonesia, home to a new and desperate phenomenon rice suicides.
Food First Bonanza
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Food First, the Institute at which I’m a Fellow in Oakland, California, has come out with some fine material over the past week. First, they’ve put out a fantastic take-down of biofuels (more properly agrofuels), in a report with the perfect title: When Renewable Isn’t Sustainable.
Now with added mortality!
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No CommentsI’m in the land of Diet Coke Plus, the absurd end-point to the fad of adding nutrients to food from which those same nutrients were systematically stripped out.
Robert Zoellick Makes Me Sick
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No Comments
Haiti and The King Canute of Food
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No CommentsI’m a little disappointed with The Observer today. I’d been holding back on posting all my thoughts about food riots so that I could pull them out of the hat today with a comment piece in their pages. My article began with worries about globalisation and the consequences of food riots in Haiti.
GM Crops Yield the same, or less, than conventional
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No CommentsLike the title says. The report, from the Soil Association, here. Yet it’s the GM lobby that’ll be using the food crisis as an opportunity to pimp out their unsavoury product, all the evidence of its benefits notwithstanding.
How to Think About Food Riots
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No Comments
Via Campesina on The Global Food Crisis
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No Comments
So here’s a response from Via Campesina to the food price crisis. I imagine that in the wake of the food riots, the temptation to say ‘told you so’ must have been overwhelming to the representatives of farmers’ and landless peoples’ movements around the world.
Missing Agflation’s Big Picture
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No CommentsThe story of rice
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No CommentsThe price of rice recently increased by 30% in a single day. But not everywhere. Places affected were in South East Asia, places like the Philippines and Indonesia, home to a new and desperate phenomenon rice suicides.
Food First Bonanza
By admin on 10/30/2009 in Stuffed & Starved with No CommentsFood First, the Institute at which I’m a Fellow in Oakland, California, has come out with some fine material over the past week. First, they’ve put out a fantastic take-down of biofuels (more properly agrofuels), in a report with the perfect title: When Renewable Isn’t Sustainable.
