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Food Justice
RSS FeedNiger: Herders fight the cost of livestock lost
2010-12-13, Issue 509
Bacharou Gorel had 300 head of cattle before the food security crisis began in Niger. Today he has only 53 left. From Tilabéri in the west, through the central region of Maradi, and into Diffa in the far east of the country, no region has been spared...
Mali: Urgent need for improving food security
2010-12-13, Issue 509
The urgency and importance of all humans having a right to food security was spelled out by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that 'everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself ...
Africa: Africa can be food self-sufficient, study says
2010-12-13, Issue 509
African nations can break dependence on food imports and produce enough to feed a growing population within a generation despite extra strains from climate change, a study said last Thursday. About 70 per cent of Africans are involved in agriculture ...
Tanzania: Debate on food export ban continues
2010-11-30, Issue 508
The country’s agricultural sector will still be in a dilemma should the government continue to implement a temporary ban on food crop exportation. The government has stuck to its guns on the policy because it believes that it is crucial to safeguard ...
Africa: Four degree rise 'would scupper African farming'
2010-12-01, Issue 508
A widespread farming catastrophe could hit Africa if global temperatures rose by four degrees Celsius or more, according to a study that calls for urgent planning for a much warmer future and investment in technology to avert disaster. In most of sou...
Global: Food prices may be even higher next year, warns new UN report
2010-11-18, Issue 505
Global food import bills may pass the $1 trillion mark in 2010, a level not seen since food prices peaked in 2008, says a new United Nations report, which warns that harder times could be ahead without a major increase in food production next year. A...
Africa: Fresh warnings against EU bio-fuels policy
2010-11-10, Issue 504
Massive increases in carbon emissions will worsen climate change if the European Union does not urgently revise its energy policy, experts warn. The EU plan to increase its share of bio-fuels to 20 per cent by the year 2020 constitutes a major mistak...
CBD did not stop the commercialization of biodiversity
Via Campesina
2010-11-12, Issue 504
La Via Campesina delegates attending the conference of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Nagoya from 19 to 29 October 2010 regret that the conference failed to achieve a radical decision to halt the mass commercialization and destruction of biodiversity.
Congo: Farming villages to boost food output
2010-10-26, Issue 502
The Republic of Congo has launched a 'farming village' project to boost food self-sufficiency, with the first one inaugurated in Nkouo, about 80km north of Brazzaville, the capital, on 8 October. It houses 40 families from different regions of the co...
Africa: Ending Africa’s hunger means listening to farmers
2010-10-26, Issue 502
Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished. Now, for the first-time, small African farmers have been properly consulted on how to solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their answers appear to directly repudiate a massive inte...
Africa: Africa lays foundations for commercial GM crops
2010-10-19, Issue 501
Under a new proposal from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), a trade bloc of 19 African nations, the bloc would carry out science-based risk assessments on growing commercial GM crops in any of the bloc's countries. If COMESA...
South Africa: Making fairtrade fair
2010-10-19, Issue 501
Fairtrade has assisted greatly in steering agricultural in a developmental direction, despite its lack of a bottom–up approach, says this post on the blog of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. ...
Swaziland: Government tried to underreport hunger
2010-10-19, Issue 501
Swaziland is one of very few African countries where hunger has become more widespread during the last decades, new evidence shows. But Swazi authorities tried to manipulate data to the UN, saying the opposite. Today, 18 per cent of Swaziland's one m...
Africa: Improve child nutrition to reduce global hunger
2010-10-18, Issue 501
Malnutrition among children under two years of age is one of the leading challenges to reducing global hunger and can cause lifelong harm to health, productivity, and earning potential, according to the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI). In Sub-Saharan ...
East Africa: GM maize trials to begin
2010-10-18, Issue 501
Confined field trials of genetically modified maize will begin in Kenya and Uganda this year, the US-based non-profit African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) said. Scientists from Kenyan and Ugandan government research bodies, Monsanto and ...
Improving small holder food production
Catherine Njuguna
2010-10-21, Issue 501
October 16 is the United Nation’s World Food Day. It is a day set aside for
us all to reflect on the fate of the 950 million men, women and
children worldwide that, according to UN statistics, go to sleep
hungry.



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Africa: Speculation fuels food price hikes
2010-10-21, Issue 501
New evidence that speculation on food by hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks is fuelling the rise of bread and other basic foods has been released by anti-poverty campaigners on World Food Day, October 16, 2010. The World Development Move...
Global: Feeding the world through family farm agriculture
2010-10-12, Issue 500
With a plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of the United Nations starting in Rome, La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, has reiterated that sustainable peasant and family farm agriculture can feed the world....
Global: The right to food and nutrition publication
2010-10-12, Issue 500
The second issue of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is a powerful tool to put pressure on policymakers at the national and international level to take the human right to food and nutrition into account. The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch pro...
Africa: Plant breeding increases cassava crop
2010-10-04, Issue 499
Efforts to improve one of the world’s most resilient staples - cassava - have paid off, with lasting and, in some instances, dramatic benefits. Plant breeding has increased this starchy root’s nutritional value and resistance to disease, saving count...
Africa: Gates investment in Monsanto slammed
2010-10-04, Issue 499
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is sponsoring the Guardian's Global development site is being heavily criticised in Africa and the US for getting into bed not just with notorious GM company Monsanto, but also with agribusiness commodity ...
Uganda: Uganda starts GM crop trials
2010-10-06, Issue 499
Ugandan researchers will carry out a series of field trials on some of the major food crops that have been genetically modified (GM), following several recent approvals by the Uganda National Biosafety Committee, despite a lack of clear legislation o...
Global: Campaigning for food rights
2010-09-28, Issue 498
The Optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) adopted by the General Assembly of the UN on 10 December of 2008 and opened to signatures and ratifications on 24 September 2009 enables new chan...
Global: Food commodities speculation and food price crises
2010-09-28, Issue 498
On the eve of an emergency FAO-meeting devoted to instability in agricultural markets, the UN Special Rapporteur has published a study analysing the impact of speculation on food price volatility. The study shows that a significant portion of the inc...
Mozambique: Call for reconstruction of national food economies
National Union of Peasant Farmers statement
2010-09-28, Issue 498
On 1 - 2 September, in popular neighbourhoods of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, and in the town of Matola, in the industrial belt of Maputo, there were extremely violent demonstrations and looting. UNAC, the National Union of Peasant Farmers, condemn...
Mozambique: Reflections on the bread riots
2010-09-30, Issue 498
Food analyst Raj Patel, on his blog, featured the Mozambican Farmers Union's (UNAC) statement on the Maputo protests, in which the social movement stated 'there's something rotten in the kingdom of globalization'. UNAC focuses on the need to concentr...
Global: Vandana Shiva on MDGs and food security
2010-09-30, Issue 498
Much of an MDG discussion hosted by Al Jazeera's Inside Story focuses on increasing global food security and eradicating hunger. Vandana Shiva, Indian environmental activist and author, argues in this article and video that Brazil's programme is amaz...
Africa: Monsanto in Gates' Clothing? The Emperor's New GMOs
2010-09-21, Issue 497
If you had any doubts about where the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is really placing its bets, AGRA Watch’s recent announcement of the Foundation’s investment of $23.1million in 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock should put them to rest. Genetic e...
Africa: Food security and structural hunger
2010-09-22, Issue 497
The latest estimates, which will soon be published in its annual State of Food and Agriculture report, show that there are 925 million hungry people on our planet – that’s roughly one in our six of us. '...there is a fundamental structural problem wi...
Global: Event: Gambling on food
Tuesday 26 October, 2010
WDM
2010-09-22, Issue 497
Speculation on food commodities in global financial markets is pushing up and destablising the price of food. In 2008, high prices caused riots because people were going hungry. Big investment banks are making a killing out of reckless speculation, w...
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