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  • Canada - Pig farmers doing it tough 30 Nov 2009 00:30 GMT
    ... fall into the latter from feast to famine. Dairy farmers have fought to maintain the three ... some degree of familiarity with terms like food crisis, price volatility, speculation, financial collapse and bailout ...

  • Land Grabs - New 'Resource Curse'? [opinion] 30 Nov 2009 15:30 GMT
    ... assets used to produce food. The global food crisis of 2008, forcing 100 million people below ... governments or regimes that engaged in major human rights abuses.' Seen from this angle, the 'food ...

  • World set for new food crisis in 2010 26 Nov 2009 08:11 GMT
    ... on the right to food by the Human Rights Council in March 2008. He was speaking ... on the international market. With the global food crisis of 2007 and 2008 we have seen ... able to stave off or prevent other food crises in the future? I think we will ...

  • Kenya: Human rights violations of the Samburu people 27 Nov 2009 17:35 GMT
    ... Eric Holt-Giménez & Raj Patel. Food Rebellions! takes a deep look at the world food crisis and its impact on the global South and under-served communities in the industrial North. ...

  • Africa's Nutrition Environment 25 Nov 2009 06:31 GMT
    ... intakes, acute food shortages, hunger, and occasional famine, all of which have contributed to the lack ... with the high-level task force on global food crisis recommendations. The first, focused on the immediate needs ...

  • Caracas Commitment 26 Nov 2009 00:54 GMT
    ... economic crisis, with an ecological crisis, a food crisis, and an energy crisis, which together represents ... labelling them as totalitarian governments, violators of human rights, with links to drug-trafficking operations, and terrorism; ...

  • Will Africa's farmland become a 'resource curse'? 25 Nov 2009 17:57 GMT
    ... Mike Davis teases out the mechanisms of famine in British-ruled 19th century India. When a drought would ... made available to them if there's a food crisis in that host country, is ludicrous. When I ...

  • Land grabs: Africa's new 'resource curse'? 26 Nov 2009 20:34 GMT
    ... assets used to produce food. The global food crisis of 2008, forcing 100 million people below ... governments or regimes that engaged in major human rights abuses.’ Seen from this angle, the ‘food ...

  • We demand food sovereignty now! 26 Nov 2009 20:34 GMT
    ... this must not undermine food sovereignty and human rights. Emergency aid should be procured as locally ... intensified in the wake of the global food crisis, deforestation, sequestering of water bodies, privatisation of ...

  • Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? 25 Nov 2009 18:17 GMT
    ... credited with saving millions of people from famine. Zeigler went to Saudi Arabia hoping that the ... exports. American consumers, if they noticed the food crisis at all, saw it in modestly inflated supermarket ...

  • Will Africa's farmland become a "resource curse"? 25 Nov 2009 01:33 GMT
    ... Mike Davis teases out the mechanisms of famine in British-ruled 19th century India. When a drought would ... made available to them if there's a food crisis in that host country, is ludicrous. When I ...

  • Faith Coalition Urges World Trade Leaders to Respect Right to Food 26 Nov 2009 15:04 GMT
    ... the right to food as enshrined in human rights declarations. Activists opposed to greedy capitalism are ... of the solution towards addressing the current food crisis," said the faith leaders. The recognition of ...

  • Fourteen Faith Groups to U.S. Trade Representative: Support Developing Country Demands to Safeguard Food Staples at WTO Ministerial 25 Nov 2009 15:31 GMT
    ... volatile market forces that caused the 2008 food crisis." The developing country group, known as the ... AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people, while promoting the values ...

  • Fourteen Faith Groups to U.S. Trade Representative: Support Developing Country Demands to Safeguard 25 Nov 2009 15:33 GMT
    ... volatile market forces that caused the 2008 food crisis." The developing country group, known as the ... AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people, while promoting the values ...

  • Obama to offer Copenhagen near-term cut of 17 percent 26 Nov 2009 02:10 GMT
    ... Obama to offer Copenhagen near-term cut of 17 percent France ... of crisis upon crisis. The fuel and food crises of last year have been compounded by ... backed by Commonwealth heavyweights though opposed by human rights campaigners. But with the clock ticking to ...


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