countercurrents.org Bolivia Rising 1 July, 2008
By Roger Burbach
Source: www.cubaencuentro.com
Like many third world countries Bolivia is experiencing food shortages and rising food prices attributable to a global food marketing system driven by multinational agribusiness corporations. With sixty percent of the Bolivian population living in poverty and thirty-three percent in extreme poverty, the price of the basic food canasta—including wheat, rice, corn, soy oil and potatoes, as (…)
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Bolivia: Agrarian Elite Foments Coup (Rise of Food Fascism)
4 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Destroying African Agriculture By Walden BELLO
11 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Foreign Policy In Focus 07 June, 2008
Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more primordial problem has been the conversion of economies that are largely food-self-sufficient into chronic food importers. Here the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) figure as much more important (…) -
Iraq : Animals Too Struggle for Survival by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
6 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Inter Press Service (IPS) June 05, 2008 FALLUJAH, Jun 5 (IPS) - Amidst the huge and growing death toll, it has been easy to forget that animals, in their own way, are finding it hard to survive in Iraq. "Like human beings, animals find it very hard to stay alive now," Dr. Sammy Hashim, a veterinarian who lives and works west of Baghdad, between Fallujah and the capital city, told IPS. "Naturally, no one cares for the poor animals when nobody seems to care even for human beings under the (…)
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Cargill : A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming
16 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
International giant Cargill is one of a relatively small number of powerful corporations that control the global agricultural system.
Cargill, among those with the widest and deepest influence, describes itself as an “international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. With 158,000 employees in 66 countries, the company is committed to using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with customers to help them succeed.”
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"The Great GM Crops Myth" , By Geoffrey Lean
21 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
The Independent/UK April 20, 2008
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study - carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt - has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of (…) -
" We Feed The World" ("Le marché de la Faim") (film, 95mn)
21 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
The entire film:
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Gen Y, Food
17 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Upon watching "Gen Y," ( , air date 04/22/2008 at 9pm Eastern & Pacific, run time 30 minutes) my first reaction was to want to defend my own generation and the one before - and it shames me to say that. It’s not that my generation or the previous one haven’t thought of environmentalism, because most of us have, just not on the scale or with the commitment Gen Y presents. At least, not yet. What I wish my first reaction had been, and what my second reaction was, way to go, Gen Y! I wish (…)
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Rush to biofuels is driving up price of food
16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Independent.co.uk Saturday, 12 April 2008
The other global crisis, By Paul Vallely
A demonstrator eats grass in front of a U.N. Brazilian peacekeeping soldier during a protest against the high cost of living in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Source: Boston.com
The world’s most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit crunch, another crisis, far more grave, is facing the world’s (…) -
World food price crisis - US, UK, EU, Oz Biofuel- & CO2-driven Food Genocide
3 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
A global food price crisis, a global food crisis, now threatens billions of people in the Developng World with famine and starvation.
This catastrophe is being driven by the greed of Western countries for the profits from biofuel and carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution .
The resource-greedy, racist and genocidal UK, EU, Australia (Oz) and US are threatening much of the world with Climate Genocide and with Food Genocide.
In British-ruled India during the Second World War about 6-7 million (…) -
Vandana Shiva on Farmer Suicides, the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, Wal-Mart in India
9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
We speak with world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva. A physicist and ecologist, Shiva is author of many books, her latest is “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.” [rush transcript]
In India, more than three hundred farmers climbed water tanks in the country’s central Vidarbha region, many of them threatening to commit suicide unless the government fulfilled their demands to lift them out of poverty. Throughout India, more and more troubled farmers (…)