Food crisis

Documents and links on the extraordinary events around recent food prices. (http://www.grain.org/go/foodcrisis)

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GRAIN publications

GRAIN interviews Tim Lang, Seedling interview, July 2008, http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=553

Vandana Shiva, The food emergency and food myths, Seedling article, July 2008, http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=552

GRAIN, The food crisis and the hybrid rice surge, Seedling article, July 2008, http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=551

GRAIN, Getting out of the food crisis, Seedling editorial , July 2008, http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=550

GRAIN, Making a killing from hunger, Against the grain, April 2008, http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=39 (Es, Fr, De, 한국어)

GRAIN, The food crisis and the hybrid rice surge, Hybrid rice blog, 12 May 2008, http://www.grain.org/hybridrice/?lid=202

GRAIN, Philippines and beyond: rice crisis – reaping the 'fruit' of market capitalism, Hybrid rice blog, 22 April 2008, http://www.grain.org/hybridrice/?lid=201

Declarations on the food crisis

Farmers bringing message to the Food Crisis Summit in Rome expelled, 3 June 2008

Terra Preta: Forum on the Food Crisis, Climate Change, Agrofuels and Food Sovereignty, Rome, 1-4 June 2008 (includes several documents / statements on the food crisis, agrofuels, climate change, and future policies)

Civil Society statement on the World Food Emergency - No More “Failures-as-Usual"! 22 May 2008:

• Read the declaration or click here for everything in 3 languages
• Sign the declaration

Via Campesina, Concrete measures are needed to strengthen peasant and farmer-based food production, Open letter, 30 April 2008

Via Campesina, An Answer to the Global Food Crisis: Peasants and small farmers can feed the world!, 1 May 2008

MONLAR, Statement of people’s organizations on high food prices: time for a comprehensive shift in economic policy, supported by various organisations, 30 April 2008,

Movement for the Protection of Indigenous Seeds, What rice what price? toward a socially oriented rice chain, Date unknown,

The Oakland Institute, Food Price Crisis: A Wake Up Call for Food Sovereignty, May 2008

Reports about the food crisis

Agence France-Presse, Small farmers slam 'empty policies' ahead of FAO food summit, 2 June 2008

Fred Magdoff, The World Food Crisis - Sources and Solutions, Monthly Review, May 2008

Ian Angus, Capitalism, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative, Global Research, 11 May 2008

Audio

Michael Robinson, BBC World Service, Assignment 2008, Commodity speculation puts up cost of food, 22 May 2008:

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Video

Food Crisis - how do we get out of it? by GRAIN

See the videos on this page: http://www.grain.org/videos/?id=175

General information

FAO, World Food Situation

Financial Times, “The global food crisis”, interactive map, last updated 21 April 2008

Marwaan Macan-Markar, Food Crisis Adds to Women’s Burden, IPS, 29 April 2008

Stefan Steinberg, "Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger", Global Research, Centre for Research on Globalisation, Montreal, 24 April 2008.

“UNCTAD official blames food crisis on structural adjustment programme,” This Day, Lagos, 23 April 2008

Agrofuels

GRAIN's Agrofuels resource page