FPIF Issues: Food & Farm

Sierra Leone Up for Grabs

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:19:10 -0400

The case of the Sierra Leone "15" highlights the country's growing resistance to multinational land-grabs.

Rio+20

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:18:51 -0400

Social policies and instruments will need to be developed to ensure that the Green Economy not only alleviates poverty and improves equity, but that the interests of the people who depend on Green Economy are deliberately safeguarded from the very outset.

Carbon Blood Money in Honduras

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:27:15 -0500

The violence playing out in Honduras shows the dark underbelly of the international carbon credit trade.

Food security and the WTO

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:44:31 -0500

The WTO should stop insisting on an out-of-date trade agenda. It should get back on track -- or get out of the way -- to support fresh approaches that bolster local food systems.

Food of the Gods

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:51:24 -0500

The politics and socioeconomics of chocolate and why it is still a guilty pleasure.

On Seeds

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:03:36 -0500

Funding for agricultural development - some US$7.7 billion worth - would be directed in large part to genetically modified crop research. In other words, food aid policy for the first time mandates the use of genetic modification technologies.

NAFTA Is Starving Mexico

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:00:00 -0400

Free trade has starved Mexico and stuffed transnational corporations.

Mexican Constitution Now Recognizes Right to Food

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:41:49 -0400

"To die of hunger is to be assassinated." Alberto Morlachetti

Bono's African Philanthropy Could Use a Remix

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:00:00 -0400

Bono's new ONE campaign to help with famine in the Horn of Africa ignores the political causes of the crisis.

Migrants Demand End to the Violence

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:37:30 -0400

The caravan of drug war victims led by Mexican poet Javier Sicilia arrived at the Mexico-Guatemala border in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, on Sept. 14, where they asked for forgiveness from the migrants who risk their lives to cross Mexico to reach the United States.