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  • Rio+20

    Commentary

    By Nidhi Tandon, April 9, 2012

    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.

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  • Carbon Blood Money in Honduras

    Commentary

    By Rosie Wong, March 9, 2012

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

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  • Food security and the WTO

    Commentary

    By Karen Hansen-Kuhn, December 21, 2011

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    The WTO should stop insisting on an out-of-date trade agenda.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

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  • Food of the Gods

    Column

    By Kwei Quartey, November 30, 2011

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

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  • On Seeds

    Commentary

    By Nidhi Tandon, November 17, 2011

    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.

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  • NAFTA Is Starving Mexico

    Column

    By Laura Carlsen, October 20, 2011

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    Free trade has starved Mexico and stuffed transnational corporations.

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  • Mexican Constitution Now Recognizes Right to Food

    Commentary

    By Alfredo Acedo, October 10, 2011

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

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  • Bono's African Philanthropy Could Use a Remix

    Blog

    By Scott Charney, October 10, 2011

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

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  • Migrants Demand End to the Violence

    Commentary

    By Kristin Bricker, September 23, 2011

    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.

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  • Feeding the World

    World Beat

    By John Feffer, August 16, 2011

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

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