Green Revolution
Rather than increasing food production through land reform and agroecology, the Green Revolution promotes technological intensification using new seed varieties, mechanization and agrochemicals. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on the Green Revolution
The 2014 World Food Prize: Onward to the Glorious Past
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jun 24, 2014
On June 18th Secretary of State John Kerry announced that plant breeder Sanjaya Rajaram would be the 2014 winner of…
Consumer Education Monsanto-Style
Blog | Devon Peña | May 2, 2014
World Food Prize winner outlines shift in strategy: focus on consumers not just growers Robert Fraley, Monsanto’s Chief Technology Officer…
One Billion Hungry: Can we feed the world? By Gordon Conway (Book Review)
Academic Publication | Eric Holt-Giménez | Aug 15, 2013
In Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 37:8, 968-971 One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? by Gordon Conway. Cornell University…
World Food Prize: Monopolizing the war on hunger?
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jun 21, 2013
The biotech industry has awarded itself the World Food Prize. A career Monsanto executive, a Syngenta scientist and a private…
The “Monsanto Protection Act” of Betrayal
Blog | Ashley Pinkerton | Apr 10, 2013
On March 26, 2013, President Obama signed H.R. 933, the Agricultural Appropriations Bill — a spending bill that prevents a…
Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and the New Green Revolution
Academic Publication | Eric Holt-Giménez and Miguel Altieri | Dec 17, 2012
In Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 37:1, 90-102 Abstract In the face of recurrent global food crises, institutions of the…
The Long Green Revolution
Academic Publication | Raj Patel | Nov 16, 2012
In The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1–63 (2013) Abstract To combat climate change and hunger, a number…
We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… and Still Can’t End Hunger
Academic Publication | Annie Shattuck, Eric Holt-Giménez, Hans Herren, Miguel Altieri and Steve Gliessman | Jul 24, 2012
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 36:595–598 (2012)
We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… And still can’t end hunger
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | May 2, 2012
A new a study* from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and…
Wheat: The New Frontier
Blog | William Wroblewski | Mar 15, 2011
Earlier this year, the US Department of Agriculture opened the door for the unregulated use of Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa. Made…
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