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Food Security & Agriculture

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The escalating crisis of soaring food prices and food insecurity is the result of a development model based on large-scale, export-orientated agriculture tied to international competition, self interest and stock market speculation. With at least 923 million people going hungry each day despite a huge surplus of food production, a reorientation towards local self-sufficiency founded upon the concept of ‘food sovereignty’ is urgently required.

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FAO Director-General appeals for second Green Revolution

13 September 2006, FAO

 

Vast effort needed to feed billions and safeguard environment

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today called for a second Green Revolution to feed the world’s growing population while preserving natural resources and the environment.

 
A Right to Food?

"If someone can't afford to buy food, they're still a citizen and we're still responsible to them," city official Adriana Aranha in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, told me in 2000. What a concept--and one that had helped her to lift her Workers' Party to victory in municipal elections seven years earlier.

 
Seeds and Robbers

China and the US know how to regulate the seed industry, but in India, the seed industry is holding farmers to ransom. Allowing the seed companies to play robbers at the expense of subsistence farmers is a cruel joke that the policy makers can no longer allow, writes Devinder Sharma.

 
Organic Farming, Answer to Farmers' Suicides?

19th July 2006, Bharat Dogra, IPS

As the phenomenon of mass suicides by farmers turns into a major national issue, small cultivators in this sub-Himalayan state are demonstrating that the way forward to sustainable agriculture may lie in sticking to traditional methods.

 
Developing countries shaping future of world agriculture trade: New joint OECD-FAO report

Production and consumption of farm products are expanding faster in developing countries than in developed economies. But a new joint report by the OECD and FAO says productivity growth in the world's poorest nations is not keeping pace with the food needs of their rising populations. 

 
High and volatile food prices in the months to come
9th June 2006, FAO
 
An uncertain economic environment prevails

The recent months saw commodity markets as a whole becoming more volatile with a steady upward trend in prices, according to the June issue of FAO’s Food Outlook report.
 
No Factory Farmed Organics
26th May 2006, Organic Consumers Association
 
Consumers Across the U.S. Tell the USDA to Not Allow Imposter Organics

Across the United States, thousands of consumers are responding to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) public comment period on revisions to the National Organic Program (NOP). A number of the USDA revisions relate to the "access to pasture" requirement for organic dairies. The Organic Consumers Association and other public interest groups are very concerned that the USDA NOP regulations contain loopholes and imprecise language that could continue to allow milk produced at giant intensive confinement dairy feedlots to be labeled as "USDA Organic."
 
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