Publication archives

Mar 4, 2011

BPA-free doesn't mean estrogen free

by
Katie Rojas-Jahn
 
Mar 3, 2011

Food Matters: Training for clinicians

Are you a clinician? What should you know about the food system to help ensure your patients’ healthy pregnancies, and the future life of their fetus and children?
Mar 3, 2011

HFCS by any other name: Like putting lipstick on a pig

Tell the FDA you vote no on High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) being renamed “corn sugar.”
Mar 2, 2011

Eyes on London for global food aid

by
Sophia Murphy
Talks are taking place this week on an obscure but important piece of the multilateral system: the Food Aid Convention (FAC).
Mar 1, 2011

Greater action urged on hormone-busting chemicals

The world's largest public health group, the American Public Health Association (APHA), has just announced a new policy calling for greater government action to protect the public from h
Feb 28, 2011

What Does the Right to Water Entail?

by
Shiney Varghese
This article by Shiney Varghese was published February 28, 2011 on Alternet Given that nearly three quarters of the "water poor" belong to rural communities, it's time that international deliberations around the right to water focus on rural communities access to safe water.
Feb 28, 2011

Commodity market reform: Wall street vs. the regulators

by
Ben Lilliston
In contrast to the rapidity with which governments moved to use taxpayer funds to rescue the “too big to fail" banks in 2008, the pace of financial and commodity market reform since then has been agonizingly slow.
Feb 28, 2011

Food security and national security: Learning from China’s approach to managing its wheat supplies

Minneapolis, March 8, 2011* — The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently declared a “food emergency” was in effect in China due to a once-in-a-century drought affecting one-third of its wheat fields.