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Food Justice
RSS FeedWest Africa: Niger raises severe hunger forecast, seeks more aid
2010-05-21, Issue 482
Niger's government needs another 45 billion CFA francs ($85.24 million) in food aid after a new survey found 500,000 more people than previously thought will face severe food shortages this year, the government said. The new survey, carried out in Ap...
Africa: African food security needs urgent, undivided attention
2010-05-14, Issue 481
FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf has called for urgent attention to be directed at Africa’s present food security situation. “In sub-Saharan Africa, since 2009, over 265 million people are malnourished and 30 percent of the population suffers from ...
Global: FAO launches anti-hunger petition
2010-05-16, Issue 481
UN agency Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has unveiled a major online petition calling on people to get angry at the fact that around a billion people suffer from hunger. ''The 1billionhungry project" uses strong images to illustrate hunger a...
Uganda: UN programme addresses underlying causes of hunger
2010-04-16, Issue 477
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching a new livelihood programme designed to address the underlying causes of food shortages in Karamoja, the poorest and most marginalised region in Uganda which has not had a successful harvest i...
Global: More food, except For that billion or so
2010-04-01, Issue 476
While agricultural research has made massive strides over the years in helping the world produce more food from the same amount of land, around one in six people, the 1.02 billion hungry, have not noticed....
Global: UN Recognizes the Rights of Peasants
Malian farmers fight for their seeds
2010-03-26, Issue 475
In an important victory in the global struggle for food sovereignty, the United Nations recently issued a preliminary recognition of peasants' rights. The decision was welcomed by rural social movements and activists throughout the world as a powerfu...
Kenya: Hunger crisis – the result of right to food violations
2010-03-18, Issue 474
“Kenya’s Hunger Crisis – the Result of Right to Food Violations” is the title of a report launched today by FIAN International and RAPDA. These words also capture the main findings of a mission report by a joint international delegation of the Africa...
Global: Hunger knows no borders
2010-03-19, Issue 474
West Africa can meet its food needs through regional trade, most agricultural experts say, if countries keep their borders open for the free flow of staple grains, especially in times of heightened stress, whether climatic, economic, or brought on by...
Africa: Africa still hungry despite annual $3 billion of aid and $33 billion of food imports – UN
2010-03-12, Issue 473
One in three Africans is chronically hungry, despite $3 billion spent on food aid for the continent annually and $33 billion in food imports, the director of the food security at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned....
Global: GM contamination of corn is a “crime against humanity”
2010-03-12, Issue 473
GM contamination of corn is a “crime against humanity”, according to organizations. This conflict will be solved at international courts. The authorization of GM corn crops in Mexico and the attempt by the FAO to legitimize this practice are strongly...
East Africa: EALA adopts common strategy for food security in the region
2010-02-26, Issue 471
The Third Meeting, Third Session of the Second East African Legislative Assembly sitting at the Chambers of the Parliament of Uganda in Kampala has today adopted a common strategy for food security in the region. In a lively plenary session chaired b...
Chad: One-fifth of population face hunger: UN
2010-02-26, Issue 471
Nearly a fifth of the population in Chad will suffer food shortages this year, part of a broader hunger problem looming in the Sahel region, the United Nations said on Thursday. "Two million Chadians, or 18 percent of the population, are in a situati...
West Africa: Neoliberal policy, rural livelihoods and urban food security
2010-02-26, Issue 471
This study examines the impact of two decades of neoliberal policy reform on food production and household livelihood security in three West African countries. The rice sectors in The Gambia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali are scrutinized as well as cotton ...
Kenya: The pros and cons of agricultural super projects
2010-02-26, Issue 471
Bill Law investigates the causes and consequences of the great global land grab, as richer nations and multi-national corporations acquire vast tracts of land in developing countries. Big corporations and countries are eying up Africa for mega agricu...
Southern Africa: Snapshot of food security
2010-02-19, Issue 470
Economic conditions in most southern African countries declined as a result of the global recession, pushing many more people towards greater food insecurity. According to a new food security update which focused on some southern African countries, f...
Global: Brazil to incorporate Right to Food to national constitution
2010-02-12, Issue 469
On February 3, 2010, the Brazilian Congress approved the Constitutional Amendment Project (PEC in Portuguese) 047/2003, to incorporate the Right to Food as a fundamental right in the national constitution. The Right to Food will be included in articl...
Global: How agri-food corporations make the world hungry
2010-02-12, Issue 469
The Winter 2009 issue of Food First News reports that last November the World Summit on Food Security in Rome issued a declaration that the world is now hungrier than ever before. Significantly, this is not the result of food shortage, with world pro...
Global: Towards food sovereignty: Reclaiming autonomous food systems
Multimedia publication by IIED
2010-01-28, Issue 467
‘Towards Food Sovereignty’ is an online book with full color photo illustrations and linked video and audio files. It describes the ecological basis of food and agriculture, the social and environmental costs of modern food systems, and the policy re...
Africa: Farmers 'jury' voices agricultural research concerns
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Agricultural researchers should spend more time improving local seeds and less time developing hybrids from "outside", farmers in West Africa have said. And research should broaden from narrow concerns such as improving a single crop to wider studies...
West Africa: Act now to stem Sahel food crisis, donor says
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Governments, aid agencies and donors must join forces now to ensure that severe food insecurity in the Sahel does not lead to famine, says the European Commission humanitarian aid department (ECHO)....
Global: Three-quarters of hungry are rural poor
2010-01-08, Issue 464
Climate change, associated with a four-fold increase in natural disasters in the last decade, and the growth of world population, which is expected to reach nine billion by 2050, pose new challenges for aid initiatives like those of the United Nation...
Global: Three approved GMOs linked to organ damage
2010-01-08, Issue 464
In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto's GM maize....
Global: Chasing the Third World farmland bubble
2009-12-18, Issue 462
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, an arm of the UN, the global food crisis is worsening. In 2009, over 1 billion people were undernourished globally, up from 873 million in 2004-2006; the accelerating growth and urbanisation of the ...
Global: Toolbox to aid in promoting the right to food
2009-12-07, Issue 461
The purpose of the Methodological Toolbox is to provide a practical aid for the implementation of the Right to Food Guidelines. It contains a series of analytical, educational and normative tools that offer guidance and hands-on advice on the practic...
Global: Hunger and Global Warming
Sérgio Barbosa de Almeida
2009-12-09, Issue 461
When, as we speak, it is been discussed in Copenhagen how to reorganize human activities that accelerate climate change in global scale, threatening the life of a large number of people living in this planet, it is impossible to leave aside the issue...
Global: Food prices up again - FAO
2009-12-10, Issue 461
Global food prices are on the ascent again with the FAO Food Price Index – a food basket composed of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar – registering four straight monthly rises....
Global: Smallholder solutions to hunger, poverty and climate change
Food First
2009-12-02, Issue 460
With the worsening of the global food crisis, general international agreement has emerged regarding the importance of smallholder agriculture in the battle against hunger and poverty. However, public debate has been highly restricted and increasingly...
Global: FAO seeks stronger world food security
2009-11-27, Issue 459
The Food and Agriculture Organization's top governing body has cleared the way for setting up a stronger and more effective system of global food security governance....
Global: World Food Summit must deal with international causes of hunger
2009-11-20, Issue 458
The human rights organization FIAN International is expecting a self-critical analysis and a change of course in global food politics from the World Summit on Food Security starting in Rome today. In 1996, governments had promised to halve hunger by ...
Global: World leaders renew commitment to end hunger
2009-11-20, Issue 458
World leaders who convened in Rome, Italy, for the World Summit on Food Security have unanimously adopted a declaration pledging renewed commitment to eradicate hunger at the earliest date, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)....
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