I’ve been working away on a big academic article on the “Green Revolution”, which I hope will be finished soon. Meantime, here’s a lecture based on the research so far, courtesy of the good folk at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Listen here.
Stakeholders vs steak-eaters – food corps take over public institutions http://t.co/wAmm6Rfk
The City Creeps:in China, most people in cities http://t.co/dQ0Fyer4 – in Ethiopia, “villagization” http://t.co/NioSQ2VX @DanWibg
MLK:”know that freedom is never given out, but it comes through … persistent and … continual agitation and revolt.” http://t.co/HZslqgvc
It’s Martin Luther King day in the US today, and I managed to catch King’s “Birth of A New Nation” speech on KPFA’s Africa Today show this evening. The full speech is here but if you’ve a few minutes, it’s always heartstopping to hear Dr King preach.
Ignacio Chapela will be familiar to readers of Stuffed and Starved. He’s a soil biologist at Berkeley and an outspoken critic of genetically modified crops, a position which has focussed the wrath of the biotechnology industry upon him. Here is a short analysis he penned earlier today on news from Europe that chemical company BASF will be pulling its GMO operations from Europe, where they are unwelcome (because ineffective and dangerous), and moving them to North Carolina.
How Many Lives Could a Soda Tax Save? http://t.co/8fXcSVyJ How keen is the soda industry to prevent it? http://t.co/ye2Ihtdn
Blame China or technology for lower workers’ wages in the US? No. Best explanation: the Shock Doctrine. http://t.co/DmZbgrcr
GRAIN report:80% of milk in Global South from small farmers. Nestlé et al trying to destroy ‘Peoples Milk’ http://t.co/ZFyaCf9T
What can the Black Panthers teach the food movement? http://t.co/GM51pnbU – an excerpt from http://t.co/BX38OwfR
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