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  1. Africa in Crisis
    The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy

    Resource Type: Book
    Africa in Crisis looks at the causes of African famine and how it is a symbol of a much deeper crisis. African droughts and famines are not just the results of a lack of rain but the end result of a long deterioration in the ability of Africans to feed themselves caused by mistakes made by governments both inside and outside the continent.
  2. Africa's Refugee Crisis
    What's To Be Done

    Resource Type: Book
    Renewed famine in Ethiopia and the Sahel, as well as the Continent's ongoing wars and political repression, have created the world's biggest refugee problem. This up-to-date, factual picture of the problem in Africa highlights three regions: the Horn, Southern Africa and East Africa. The authors examine both the internal causes, and the responsibility of the former colonial powers and the Super Powers.
  3. The Anglican Church of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Canadian Feed The Children
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  9. CHF
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  10. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  11. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  12. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  13. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  14. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  15. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  16. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  17. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  18. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  19. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  22. Connexions Library: Food Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
  23. The Crisis in African Agriculture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Why is Africa no longer able to feed itself? Lamine Gokou poses this question against a background of meticulous evidence charting the dimensions of the Continent's agricultural decline. He shows what has happened to overall food production, grain output, and levels of nutrition. He argues that the solution to Africa's food crisis must be primarily political. Technical measures can only work once African peoples have taken control of their own societies.
  24. Daily Bread Food Bank
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  25. Development Education Viewpoints
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Educational tools focused on worldwide underdevelopment in a Canadian context.
  26. Edible Action
    Food Activism and Alternative Economics

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  27. Eritrea
    Struggle for Independence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    One of the longest and most bitter nationalist struggles in Africa is being fought in Eritrea. The Horn of Africa has been the scene of tremendous levels of political upheaval, famine and intermittent war. At the centre of these regional problems is the question of the rights of self-determination of various submerged nationalities. The Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is perhaps the most costly human tragedy to afflict the region in the last quarter century.
  28. Escape from Camp 14
    The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
  29. The Ethiopian Famine
    Resource Type: Book
    This story is the greatest single peacetime mobilization of the international community this century, told by the man who masterminded it. Jansson argues that despite some shortcomings, the UN system led to a largely effective operation which saved millions of lives. Harris and Penrose provide information essential to this and show conclusively that the eleventh hour intervention could have been avoided if the warning signals had been heeded.
  30. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
  31. Food Banks Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  32. Ford Massacre
    Detroit Workers News Special, 1932

    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 1982
    WFPL newsreel of the March 7th Detroit/Dearborn demonstration and hunger march of unemployed Ford workers.
  33. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    A series of article regarding the Ten Days for World Development conference focused on food.
  34. GM crops: Hunger as the key to world domination
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Weapons and energy resources are apparently insufficient for total control over the world's nations, power-hungry globalists like David Rockefeller have come up with the idea of using people's daily need for food as a means to achieve global dominance.
  35. Great Famine (Ireland)
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine, because about two-fifths of the population was solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons. During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.
  36. Hunger
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    In politics, humanitarian aid, and social science, hunger is a condition in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs. Throughout history, portions of the world's population have often experienced sustained periods of hunger. In many cases, this resulted from food supply disruptions caused by war, plagues, or adverse weather.
  37. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
  38. Is World Hunger our Responsibility?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Collection of articles discussing how we cause world hunger and what we must do.
  39. Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Israel’s calculating of daily caloric needs shows how it manages the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in almost microscopic detail.
  40. Issues & Actions
    May 1985

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1985
    A newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on housing, hunger, 'Homes Before Domes.'
  41. The Land Grabbers
    The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
  42. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  43. The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 1982
    WFPL Documentary of the Second National Hunger March to Washington, D.C. 1932.
  44. National Hunger March, 1931
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 1931
    WFPL footage of protesters marching to Washington demanding jobs, food, and clothing during the infancy of the Great Depression.
  45. Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  46. 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.
  47. Open Veins of Latin America
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
  48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
  49. OXFAM Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  50. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  51. Perspectives on World Hunger
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    This curriculum unit is designed to introduce senior high school students in Newfoundland to the problem of widespread malnutrition in the world.
  52. Playing Fair?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  53. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1889
  54. The Politics of Hunger
    The Global Food System

    Resource Type: Book
    Warnock's book is an attempt to explain within the context of the global food market why famine, malnutrition, poverty and disease are the flip side of affluence and waste. He examines the political question of who controls the production, processing and marketing of food products and the social and environmtntal impact on societies. He calls for a just food system that recognizes the needs of the people not just the profit demand of the corporate sector .
  55. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  56. Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
    A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
  57. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
  58. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
  59. Suffering Strong
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This readable book tells readers much about the underlying causes of hunger in Africa. Through the author's powers of observation, the readers experience the horror of seeing both a starving child and the thrill of accomplishment of irrigated fields in Eritrea. The odyssey details the devastating impact of the West's two hundred year presence on the wars and oppression that today cause hunger and death in Africa.
  60. Ten Days for World Development Hunger Package
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  61. Tombstone
    The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A look at 'the great famine', a concealed result of the Great Leap Forward in China.
  62. Toronto's Poor
    A Rebellious History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2916
    Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
  63. Worker's Newsreel Unemployment Special, 1931
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 1982
    WFPL footage of the first mass demonstration against unemployment and hunger in Union Square, New York City on March 6, 1930.
  64. World Relief Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization

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