FPIF Issues: Food & Farm

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The WTO should stop insisting on an out-of-date trade agenda.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.

Feeding the World

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:20:00 -0400

With evermore mouths to feed, how will we be able to coax more food out of our exhausted soil?

Malawi Makes, Africa Takes?

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:40:00 -0400

Malawi has turned around its agricultural sector. Can it overcome political challenges to become a model for Africa?

Land 'investment' deals in Africa: Say 'no way!'

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:49:10 -0400

Land investments - the purchase or lease of vast tracts of land from mostly poor, developing countries by wealthier food-insecure nations and private investors for the production and export of food and agrofuel crops - have become a very fast-paced international phenomenon.