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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.

Latest Articles

Food Crisis, Which Crisis?

The emergency food summit in Rome drew up the battle lines over the future of global agriculture - and the stakes could scarcely be higher, writes Sam Urquhart.

 
Secret Report: Biofuel Caused Food Crisis

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

 
Free Trade in Food Is 'On the Ropes' Amid Shortages, Price Rise

Free-trade policies long advanced by World Bank President Robert Zoellick and U.S. President George W. Bush are losing favor as countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America find they can't buy enough food to feed their people.

 
Agribusiness vs. food security: The food crisis and the IFIs

The food crisis has decisive implications for the future role of international financial institutions - and is calling into question the basis of their approach to development, argues the Bretton Woods Project.

 
Scarcity in an Age of Plenty

As food and fuel prices continue to increase, writes Joseph Stiglitz, the world must look to new patterns of consumption and production.

 
World Bank and IMF Emergency Loans: A Cure or a Curse for the Food Crisis?

The World Bank's response to the food crisis is a 'fire-extinguisher' approach that fails to address its root causes, argues Eurodad - namely the unregulated process of trade liberalisation, structural adjustment and stringent conditionality implemented by the World Bank and the IMF in the first place.

 
The World Food Summit: A Lost Opportunity

The Rome summit of the Food & Agriculture Organisation failed to address the roots of the current price and hunger crises. These lie in incoherent and unfair global food policies, says Sue Branford.

 
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