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
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…
Saving Africa’s Seeds: Farmers fighting for diversity
Blog | Tanya M. Kerssen | Nov 30, 2010
Agricultural programs have too often scratched where there wasn’t any itching. — Agronomist Roland Bunch1 Meeting the world’s future food…
Nanotechnology: Transforming Food and the Environment
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Kristen Lyons | Apr 1, 2010
Nanotechnology is the latest technological innovation being used to transform food, farming and the environment.
Gates Agriculture Speech Highlights Sustainability but Falls Short
Blog | Tanya M. Kerssen | Oct 26, 2009
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered his first major address on agriculture last week on…
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