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June 15, 2012
How can we create an economy that serves the health and well-being of both people and the planet? Follow the Earth's lead. Read more
Essay
May 23, 2012
At the G8 meetings this past weekend, President Obama and the leaders of the rest of the world's richest nations abandoned their governments' previous commitments to donate $7.3 billion a year to end hunger in Africa and instead left the problem...
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February 24, 2012
It's official: Organic food certified in the European Union will now be treated as equivalent to food certified here in the U.S., a fact that will now make trade between the two regions much easier. Since the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)... Read more
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July 1, 2011
Hundreds of people have marched in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, against government plans to import genetically modified (GM) maize. Read more
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Peoples' Coalition for Food Sovereignty (PCFS)
To All Who Defend the Rights to Food and Health, Peasant Farmers' Rights, Women's Rights, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, All who believe in Environmental, Climate, Social and Economic Justice, and All who seek an End to Militarization of Rural... Read more
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June 19, 2011
Many urban Americans idealize "green living" and "slow food." But few realize that one of the most promising models for sustainable living is not to be found on organic farms in the United States, but in Afghanistan. A majority of its 30 million... Read more
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June 2, 2011
Campaign fundraisers are already at work on the upcoming presidential election-Obama 2012 is soliciting donations, and Republican candidates like Tim Pawlenty are spending more time meeting donors than voters. Read more
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February 15, 2011
This is an interesting attempt by the New York Times to foster a discussion on food insecurity, which OCA appreciates. Some of the panelists responses are very interesting. However, to quote Phil Bereano, Professor of Technology and Public Policy... Read more
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February 4, 2011
Neoliberalism and the attendant financial globalisation were a common enemy that unified and mobilised activists of the most diverse tendencies who founded, ten years ago in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, the World Social Forum (WSF) as a space... Read more
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February 2, 2011
At the annual World Economic Forum this past weekend in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director Rajiv Shah stood beside CEOs from Monsanto and other infamous giant corporations, and announced U.S. support for... Read more