Cotton-pickin trade US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies? Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the 'buy local food' movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?
I was wrong on veganism Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
'Land Grabbing': exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities Film review Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces. The documentary 'Land Grabbing' investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water.
Notebook: Toward a Second Haitian Revolution Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 A historical review of economic policy in Haiti since its independence, and the impact of its smallholder's disposession by US policies that sought to 'liberalize' the economy. The author advocates investment in subsistence farming rather than spending foreign aid on foreign imports in the wake of the earthquake.
Patent Folly Resource Type: Article Published: 1995 The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
Permaculture Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimics the relationships found in natural ecologies.
Sources welcomes the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 The Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare of animals raised for food in Canada through public education, legislative change and consumer choice.
Stuffed and Starved Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 This investigation into the global food market postulates that the current state of population health, where one billion people are overweight and one billion people are starving exemplifies the disequilibrium resulting from the liberalization of agriculture in the developing world by the forces of globalization and the policies of the IMF and World Bank.