Food sovereignty

Eric Holt-Giménez: What's wrong with the industrial food system and the challenges facing food justice movements

January 2012
Eric Holt-Giménez

In the industrial or corporate food regime, hunger is a staple commodity. Agrarian and food justice movements have come a long way in building an alternative system, but there are still many challenges.

Miguel Altieri: On agroecology, and why it is the solution to hunger and food security

January 2012
Miguel Altieri

Today, a billion people live in hunger. Can we feed the world and achieve economic development while conserving ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of peasants and the rural poor?

Olivier de Schutter: What is agroecological farming? And why should it be upscaled?

January 2012
Olivier de Schutter

The food crisis and the environmental crisis are two sides of one coin, so any solution to hunger and food security must also be sustainable and contribute to ecological integrity.

 

Turning Points: Is a Different Future Possible?

April 2011
John Cavanagh
Robin Broad

With the citizen-backed blockage of a proposed aluminum smelter, is Trinidad and Tobago changing course toward a rooted future?

Food Wars

July 2009
Walden Bello
Mara Baviera

In 2006–08, food shortages became a global reality, with the prices of commodities spiraling beyond the reach of vast numbers of people. International agencies were caught flatfooted, with the World Food Program warning that its rapidly diminishing food stocks might not be able to deal with the emergency.

Land, Rural Social Movements and Democratisation in Indonesia

June 2009
TNI
Dianto Bachriadi

Although support from urban-based students and activists was important, the rural protest in Indonesia during President Suharto's regime was built on continued protest and organisation around land issues.

The global food price crisis - a critique of orthodox perspectives

June 2009
TNI
Walden Bello
Capitalist industrial agriculture, with its wrenching destabilisation and transformation of land, nature, and social relations is responsible for today's food crises, argues Walden Bello.

 

CARPER: latest chapter in agri reform battle

June 2009
Walden Bello

whether Philippines' Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law becomes truly a vehicle for advancing reform will depend on whether pro-reform forces can create, at the local level, the critical political mass involving farmers, progressive elements at the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Church, and other groups that would overcome the rearguard actions of the landed class to delay the inevitable.

Pro-Poor Policy Reforms and Governance in State/Public Lands:

June 2009
Jennifer Franco

This paper attempts to specify the key criteria of a ‘pro-poor land policy’ and ‘truly democratic land governance’ concerning state/public lands, using the lessons from activist databases, including that of the international human rights organization Foodfirst Information and Action Network (FIAN).

From rural livelihoods to agricultural growth

February 2009
TNI
Lies Craeynest

This paper examines the policies and practices on land of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom. After a market-led approach to land distribution in the 1980s, DFID made some changes towards a rights-based land policy, but this has since regressed.