
Development Reports


Food Policy Councils: Lessons learned
Development Report | Alethea Harper, Alison Alkon, Annie Shattuck, Eric Holt-Giménez and Frances Lambrick | Dec 1, 2009
The central aim of most Food Policy Councils is to identify and propose innovative solutions to improve local or state food systems.
Food System Meta-Analysis for the San Francisco Bay Area
Development Report | Amy Parente and Heather Wooten | Mar 2, 2009
Few studies to date have used a “food system” framework to approach food security, food retail, or other community food issues.
Oakland Food Retail Impact Study
Development Report | Hannah Laurison and Nella Young | Feb 1, 2009
How will Oakland’s long-underserved neighborhoods be affected by the arrival of those two very different food retail formats?
Gold Strike in the Breadbasket: Indigenous livelihoods and territorial restructuring in Ghana
Development Report | Albert T. Armstrong | Apr 1, 2008
Forty percent of Ghana’s 22 million citizens still live in poverty despite the fact that the country is the second-largest gold producer in Africa.
Fair to the Last Drop: The corporate challenges to fair trade coffee
Development Report | Devon Sampson, Eric Holt-Giménez and Ian Bailey | Nov 1, 2007
Worldwide, 25 million people earn their livelihoods from coffee farming.
Land – Gold – Reform: The territorial restructuring of Guatemala’s highlands
Development Report | Eric Holt-Giménez | Sep 1, 2007
Without a structural analysis of the World Bank’s agenda, it is difficult to understand the political scope of its land reform programs.
Bitter Harvest: Farmer suicide and the impacts of the Green Revolution in Punjab, India
Development Report | Bryan Newman | Jan 1, 2007
The links between the Green Revolution and the suicide epidemic are found in the crises that have enveloped rural Punjab over the last several decades.
Cuba’s New Agricultural Revolution: The transformation of food production in Cuba
Development Report | Laura J. Enríquez | May 1, 2000
The first half of the 1990s witnessed the initiation of a major transformation of Cuban agriculture.
Manufacturing a Crisis: Food Aid in Indonesia
Development Report | A.Z.M. Obaidullah Khan, Anuradha Mittal, John-David Comtois, Marco Mezzera, Vidhyandika Moeljarto and Walden Bello | Jun 1, 1999
Despite widespread reports to the contrary, Indonesia is not suffering a famine.
Cultivating Havana: Urban agriculture and food security in the years of crisis
Development Report | Catherine Murphy | May 1, 1999
Cuba responded to the crisis of 1989 with a national call to increase food production by restructuring agriculture.
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