Food security

Farmers markets and food support: An idea whose time has come

Some ideas just make sense. One such idea is enabling low-income members of our community to purchase fresh, locally grown foods at the farmers market.

Governments agree on voluntary rules to control land grabs

Three years of negotiations on guidelines to govern the tenure of land, fisheries and forests (commonly referred to as the Voluntary Guidelines, or VG) came to a successful close on Friday, March 9 in Rome.

Learning from the Indirect Land Use Change Debate

For the last few years, environmental advocates and ethanol producers have been mired in a debate over something known as indirect land use change (ILUC), a measure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by, but not directly associated with, biofuel production. The controversy centers on these questions: Does ethanol demand in the U.S.

Resolving the food crisis: Global leaders fail to make crucial reforms

Off the rails: Food security and the WTO

Washington D.C., December 21, 2011 – At a World Social Forum event in 2006, Walden Bello warned that the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was careening down a track to disaster. Negotiators urgently needed to pull back before the Round went off a cliff, the founder of Focus on the Global South said.

The sound of food sovereignty in Durban

IATP’s Karen Hansen-Kuhn is blogging from the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa.   The launch of the African Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) began with rounds of joyous song, specifically a variant of a South African protest song:

Feeding the world, or not

Civil Society Intervention in the Strategy Panel 2: Creating More with Less

 My intervention is in the context of the discussion around growing more out of less, or in other words, a green economy whose primary focus is on resource efficiency improvement.

Civil Society Intervention in the Plenary Panel 2: Understanding the Nexus

 Referring to the presentation by Global compact person, on integrating:  1. governance, 2. pricing as a means of valuing Natural resources, and 3. the need for integration of social economic and environmental aspect, this intervention is to share a different perspective on the same issues.

Poor countries' food import bills soar under WTO rules

FAO produces an excellent state of the world's agriculture twice a year called Food Outlook (in all 6 U.N.

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