Food security

Food Assistance and Food Security

Over 27 million Americans received food stamps in March, an increase of over 1.5 million from the previous year. In Minnesota, food shelves are seeing a 20 percent increase in demand.

Food Stamps, Food Security and Public Health: Lessons from Minnesota

The Food Stamp Program is a good case study to examine why, despite food assistance and nutrition programs, people continue to struggle with adequate and nutritious food supplies.

The 2008 Farm Bill and the Doha Agenda

The U.S. Congress voted a new Farm Bill into law on May 22, 2008. The legislation was greeted with a resounding thumbs down in Geneva, where the WTO has its headquarters. The negotiators reaction echoed that of President Bush, who promptly vetoed the legislation, saying the Farm Bill would impede a conclusion to negotiations on the Doha Agenda at the WTO.

Now for the Hard Work: Turning the Food Summit into Action

IATP's Carin Smaller just returned from the UN Food and Agriculture High Level Conference on Food Security in Rome last week.

Food Crisis - Scarcity or Injustice

The excellent magazine out of the UK, Food Ethics, tackles the global food crisis in its Summer 2008 issue. The central question in the issue's title is an important one: Scarcity or Injustice?

Update on Civil Society Voices at FAO Summit

For those interested, the statements referenced in Carin's last blog by Henry Saragih of La Via Campesina and Ben Powless of the Indigenous Environmental Network before participants at the UN Food and Agriculture Organizat

Social Movements and Civil Society Condemn UN Food Summit

IATP's Carin Smaller is blogging from Rome this week at the UN Food and Agriculture High Level Conference on Food Security.

An Impressive First Step: Now Time for Action

IATP's Carin Smaller is blogging from Rome this week at the UN Food and Agriculture High Level Conference on Food Security.

Lessons from China on the Food Crisis

IATP President Jim Harkness is blogging from China through June 14. Due to internet access problems, Jim sent this blog via e-mail. I am posting it for him - Ben

The WTO Cannot Solve the Food Crisis

IATP's Carin Smaller is blogging from Rome this week at the UN Food and Agriculture High Level Conference on Food Security.