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Grain is the key, sweep away everything else

Au Loong-Yu, Liu Xiang — 2023-08-07T21:02:22Z

'Nongguan' (農管) are a new form of policing that structures China's food production planning.

- IV583 - August 2023 / China, Food crisis

International food crisis and proposals to overcome it

Éric Toussaint, Omar Aziki — 2022-12-27T09:04:32Z

Contrary to a notion that spread in 2022, the global food crisis started before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the rise in the cereal prices due to speculation.

- Features / Food crisis, Features, Debt

The Weaponization of Food

John Feffer — 2022-08-10T08:08:00Z

Russia and Ukraine have come to an agreement on food exports. Will the deal hold?

- IV571 - August 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Food crisis

Food crisis in Africa

Paul Martial — 2022-05-26T22:23:16Z

“This situation is not due to any fatality but mainly to the consequences of the policies of the leaders of rich countries.”

- IV568 - May 2022 / Africa, Food crisis

Rice Becomes Less Nutritious If There's More Carbon Dioxide in the Air

T.V. Padma — 2018-07-24T06:45:16Z

This effect “is not due to global warming. It is a direct effect of elevated carbon dioxide on crop nutrients, independent of climate.”

- IV522 - July 2018 / Ecology and the Environment, Food crisis

Food sovereignty: a feminist struggle?

Aurélie Leroy — 2017-05-08T07:26:18Z

The starting point of this study is a paradox: among social, institutional and political actors, peasant and family farming are gradually becoming established as legitimate and credible alternatives to an agro-productivist model that has 'run out of steam'. [1] They address both environmental and food-related challenges, are sustainable and successful in agro-economic terms, contribute to social change and operate on a human scale. This is one side of the coin.

- Feminism / Philippines, Ecology and the Environment, Women, Food crisis, Sexual politics

Confronted by the ecological emergency: project of society, programme, strategy

Daniel Tanuro — 2015-10-12T21:15:13Z

In April 2014, two different teams of American glaciologists, specialists in the Antarctic, reached - by different methods, based on observation - the same conclusion: because of global warming, a portion of the ice sheet has begun to dislocate, and this dislocation is irreversible.

- IV489 - October 2015 / Ecology and the Environment, Food crisis, Climate, Ecosocialism

The Political Economy of Food in South Africa

Jacklyn Cock — 2015-05-01T06:36:40Z

THERE IS A FOOD CRISIS IN contemporary South Africa, and it is marked by the co-existence of waste and hunger. It is deeply implicated in the existing crisis-prone, global neoliberal regime. As Susan George writes, â€˜Food stands squarely at the crossroads of the ecological, social and economic/financial crises and provides a graphic example of how they reinforce each other.'

- IV484 - May 2015 / Ecology and the Environment, South Africa, Food crisis

Of the class struggle and the things we eat

Esther Vivas — 2014-11-04T12:11:39Z

Do the rich and poor eat the same? Do our incomes determine our diet? Today, who is overweight? Although often, and from certain quarters, the call for healthy and wholesome food is viewed with disdain, as “a fad”, “posh”, “hippy” or “flower power” the reality is rather different than these short-sighted comments imply. To defend ecological, local, peasant food is most “revolutionary”.

- IV478 - November 2014 / Ecology and the Environment, Food crisis

Join the Climate Justice, Gender and Food Sovereignty Caravan 2014

2014-08-25T14:25:38Z

10 - 28 November 2014

â€¢ Running for 18 days

â€¢ Travelling through three countries; Bangladesh, India and Nepal

- IV475 - August 2014 / Ecology and the Environment, India, Nepal, Food crisis, Bangladesh