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Summary Presentations for Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Editor’s Note: Some permies may wish to download the slideshow files at bottom to use, or modify to use, for…
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Full Planet, Empty Plates – The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Editor’s Note: It’s a pity this article is devoid of real holistic solutions, but I put it up as the…
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Why are the FAO and the EBRD Promoting the Destruction of Peasant and Family Farming?
Editor’s Note: It is intensely infuriating when people in suits make wholly inaccurate, ignorant statements about incredibly important issues, and…
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The 2012 Farm Bill and Agricultural Subsidies: Corporate Welfare for Farmers
This video from ReasonTV covers ground we’ve covered before many times, but since little to nothing has changed on this…
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Hunger Games
The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental…
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Why Australia Needs a “Peoples Food Plan”
by Richard Widows We are in the early stages of a global food crisis, the likes of which has never…
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Coal to Liquids – Racing to the Bottom With the Fuel from Hell
I thought I’d add to George Monbiot’s recent post highlighting moves to persevere with fossil fuels by sharing a little…
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Stabilizing the Climate with “Permanent Agriculture”
Trees are one of our most powerful tools to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil…
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The Big Green Question
Is environmentalism compatible with social justice? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. It…
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Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute The world’s farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the…
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