Breaking Ground: The Community Food Security Movement
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Christine Ahn | Dec 1, 2004
A diverse network of activists across America have begun organizing for a just food system that benefits consumers and farmers.
Backgrounders & Issue Briefs
Beyond the Food Bank
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Brahm Ahmadi and Chrsitine Ahn | Oct 1, 2004
In 2002, 3.5 million people in the United States--the world's richest nation and largest food exporter--worried about where their next meal was coming from.
The Organic Alternative: Slovenia, the European Union & the Debate Over Sustainable Agriculture
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | John Feffer | Jul 1, 2004
"There is no other way for Slovenian agriculture except sustainable agriculture."
Migrant Farmworkers: America’s New Plantation Workers
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Christine Ahn, Melissa Moore and Nick Parker | Apr 1, 2004
Thousands of migrants risk death and incarceration daily by crossing the U.S. Mexico border.
Worse Than the World Bank? Export Credit Agencies: The Secret Engine of Globalization
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Aaron Goldzimer | Dec 1, 2003
The Three Gorges dam project in China is probably the biggest and most controversial construction project on the planet.
Food Sovereignty: Global Rallying Cry of Farmer Movements
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Peter Rosset | Oct 1, 2003
As globalization devastates rural communities around the world, farmers' organizations are coming together around the rallying cry of food sovereignty.
Now It Is Time: The MST and Grassroots Land Reform in Brazil
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford | Apr 1, 2003
Since the late 1970s, more than one million people in Brazil organized peaceful protests to force the Brazilian government to redistribute 20m acres of farmland.
Farming Shrimp, Harvesting Hunger: The Costs and Benefits of the Blue Revolution
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Susan C. Stonich | Dec 1, 2002
Thanks to soaring demand from the US, Japan and Western Europe, shrimp are now raised on an industrial scale in tropical countries.
The Profits of Famine: Southern Africa’s Long Decade of Hunger
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Raj Patel | Oct 1, 2002
Colin Powell recently met with the Vatican to persuade the Zambian government to accept US-supplied genetically modified food aid.
Genetic Pollution in Mexico’s Center of Maize Diversity
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | ETC Group | Apr 1, 2002
Controversy erupted last year after genetically modified maize was discovered among farmers' traditional maize varieties in two remote Mexican states.
Tides Shift on Agrarian Reform: New Movements Show the Way
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Peter Rosset | Dec 1, 2001
Only rarely are we privileged to bear personal witness at historical turning points that symbolize and crystallize a changing of the tides.
Freedom to Trade? Trading Away American Family Farms
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Anuradha Mittal | Oct 1, 2001
At the last WTO ministerial held in Seattle in 1999, negotiators were confronted by 70,000 protestors...
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