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The Avery Diet: The Hudson Institute’s Misinformation Campaign Against Cuban Agriculture
Friday 22 May 2009
Fernando Funes Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians (ACTAF)
Miguel A Altieri President, Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA) (www.agroeco.org/socla)
Peter Rosset Co-coordinator, Land Research Action Network (...) > continue
The unnatural coupling: Food and global finance
Jayati Ghosh
Saturday 25 April 2009
Paper for presentation at IDEAs Conference on
“Re-regulating global finance in the light of global crisis”
Tsinghua University, Beijing China, 9-11 April 2009 > continue
Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Confronting the ‘New’ Crisis
Saturday 25 April 2009
During the first months of 2007, Mexicans took to the streets to protest a sudden doubling of the price of corn tortillas, the mainstay of the national diet. > continue
Venezuela Accelerates Land Reform
Saturday 25 April 2009
The crisis will be profound and prolonged
João Pedro Stedile
Saturday 21 March 2009
It’s been several months since the crisis of capitalism was unleashed on the international level, with its epicenter in financial capital and the US economy. Now we have more evidence that this crisis will be profound and prolonged, affecting all the peripheral economies — including (...) > continue
John Kinsman: Nation’s Food System Nearly Broke
by John Kinsman
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Feeding the world and cooling the planet: La Vía Campesina’s Fifth International Conference
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Climate Negotiations: Peasants have a role to play
by Morgan Ody La Vía Campesina
Tuesday 17 March 2009
In December 2009, a new agreement on the reduction of carbon emissions is to be signed to follow the Kyoto Protocol, which will end in 2012. However the proposals that are presently in negotiations, all based on carbon trading, will not be able to stop climate change and, moreover, are a (...) > continue
Farmers set huge rally for CARP
Church mobilizing thousands more from provinces
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Q&A: Bolivia Limits Size of Estates in Land Reform Struggle
January 28, 2009, Inter Press Service
Wednesday 28 January 2009
