Food security

The Fertilizer Mafia?

Costs for farmers around the world have gone through the roof—particularly for fertilizer.

IATP's Common Sense New Progressive Voice

IATP’s contribution to a new report from the Progressives Ideas Network, New Progressive Voices: Values and Policies for the 21st Century, addresses the need for the U.S. to re-engage with the world.

Building a European Movement for Food Sovereignty

IATP's Alexandra Strickner is blogging from the fifth European Social Forum taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from September 17-21.

Like Food, Does Money Need to Go Local?

The current Wall Street financial crisis has me thinking about potential parallels to food. Not long ago, the vast majority of Americans had little choice but to consume a diet dominated by industrially produced food. We were becoming the culture of Wonder Bread. But then some alternative ideas started to break through.

New Alliances for Healthy and Affordable Food for All

IATP's Alexandra Strickner is blogging from the fifth European Social Forum taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from September 17-21.

Agriculture in need of a little innovation?

Thanks to Business Week, I finally have a name to put on a topic that has been rattling around in my brain over the past several months - innovation economics. The September 11 issue of Business Week has a cover story called “Can America Invent Its Way Back.”

Nayakrishi Farming and Happiness

Last night I was given the opportunity to speak at a forum in Adelaide, where I live, organized as part of the One Just World series.

Food Waste

The Stockholm International Water Institute issued a new report (while many of us were vacationing in August) that is worth revisiting. The report covers an aspect of the global food crisis that is often missed: waste.

Who Would Benefit From Doha?

While most believe the Doha Round of negotiations at the WTO are dead, a few countries, led by Brazil, are desperately trying to re-start discussions.