Water as Commodity: The Wrong Prescription
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Maude Barlow | Jul 1, 2001
Under the current system of market-driven economic globalization, there are no limits placed on where capital can go to 'harvest' nature.
Backgrounders & Issue Briefs
The Last Plantation
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Anuradha Mittal | Dec 1, 2000
Melvin Bishop is among hundreds of black farmers who have filed complaints charging that USDA loan officials have discouraged, delayed, or rejected loan applications because of their race.
Anatomy of a Gene Spill: Do We Really Need Genetically Engineered Food?
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Peter Rosset | Oct 1, 2000
On Sept. 18, 2000, a coalition of biotech critics revealed the presence of GE corn--a variety not approved for human consumption--in Taco Bell brand taco shells.
Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Walden Bello | Jul 1, 2000
What both North and South civil society should be doing at this point is radically cut down the power of the WTO and reduce it to simply another institution in a pluralistic world trading system.
Dangerous Liaisons: Progressives, the Right and the Anti-China Trade Campaign
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Anuradha Mittal and Walden Bello | Apr 1, 2000
The China campaign has brought many progressive American groups into an unholy alliance with the Right...
On the Benefits of Small Farms
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Peter Rosset | Dec 1, 1999
For more than a century, pundits have confidently predicted the demise of the small farm, labeling it as backward, unproductive and inefficient.
Food First Trade Principles
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Peter Rosset | Oct 1, 1999
Since 1973 the income gap between rich and poor nations has grown from 44 to 1 to 72 to 1. The gap between rich and poor in most countries has grown rapidly, followed closely by deepening social problems.
Monsanto: Food, Health, Hope
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | A.V. Krebs | Apr 1, 1999
Monsanto and DuPont are betting the farm in bids to transform themselves into the Coke and Pepsi of genetically engineered crops.
Shredding the Safety Net: Welfare Reform As We Know It
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Anuradha Mittal, Marilyn Borchardt and Peter Rosset | Dec 1, 1998
On Aug. 22, 1996, President Clinton signed Welfare Reform into law.
Twelve Myths About Hunger
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins and Peter Rosset | Aug 1, 1998
Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Banana War in the Philippines
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Jul 1, 1998
This dispute, which could paralyze most of Dole's Philippine banana operations, highlights the possible consequences of economic liberalization in the wake of the economic meltdown in southeast Asia.
Asian Financial Crisis: The Movie
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Walden Bello | Apr 1, 1998
After seeing Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, I told myself that surely I could manage something better on the Asian financial crisis.
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