Food crisis: causes, consequences and alternatives

Esther Vivas      The current food model is from top to bottom subject to a high company concentration, being monopolized by a series of transnational agribusiness interests that place their own economic interests above the good of the public and the community. Today, the food system no longer responds to the nutritional needs of people, nor [...]

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Millions Face Starvation in West Africa, Warn Aid Agencies

Agencies launch emergency appeals for drought-stricken region as up to 10 million face conditions of 1984 Ethiopia famine Henry Foy Published on Monday, June 21, 2010 by The Guardian/UK Starving people in drought-stricken west Africa are being forced to eat leaves and collect grain from ant hills, say aid agencies, warning that 10 million people [...]

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“El hambre y la obesidad son dos caras de una misma moneda”

Entrevista a Esther Vivas en The Ecologist Esther Vivas es una vieja conocida de The Ecologist. Ahora, junto a Josep Maria Antentas, acaba de publicar el libro Resistencias globales. De Seattle a la crisis de Wall Street. En su punto de mira, desde hace tiempo, está el sistema agroalimentario global. Obesidad y hambre son consecuencias [...]

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“A alimentação deve ser considerada um direito humano” – entrevista com Chico Menezes

Elaine Ramos, da Agência Ibase No Brasil, Josette Sheeran, diretora executiva do Programa Mundial de Alimentação da Organização das Nações Unidas (PMA/ONU), afirmou que metade da população mundial que passa fome é formada por pequenos agricultores que não conseguem produzir para alimentar a própria família. Ela participou do “Diálogo Brasil-África sobre Segurança Alimentar, Combate à [...]

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Who Decides What We Eat?

Esther Vivas   The increasing conversion of agriculture into a commodity industry is an undeniable reality today. The privatisation of natural resources, the policies of structural adjustment, the gradual disappearance of the peasantry and the industrialisation of the food systems have driven us to the current food crisis situation. In this context, who is deciding [...]

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Biotechnology: A False Sense of Food Security

In his Foreign Policy essay “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers,” Robert Paarlberg paints the movement for sustainable food production and security as a Western elite preoccupation. He writes, “From Whole Foods recyclable cloth bags to Michelle Obama’s organic White House garden, modern eco-foodies are full of good intentions… Food has become an elite preoccupation in the [...]

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