The G8 scheme does nothing to address the problems that are at the core of hunger and malnutrition but will serve only to further poverty and inequality.
Academic research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards.
Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We're fighting back.
Even though it took economic collapse to wake the American people up to the vast harms caused by unchecked corporate power, farmers have known this for decades.
From Maine to California, regulators are trying to push laws meant for mega-dairies and agribusiness on small farmers, but the farmers have another idea.
As the world faces the uphill battle of feeding its people in the coming years, neoliberalism and globalization add insult to injury in the Philippines.
Rich Bindell, Food & Water Watch. November 23, 2011.
We need a better Farm Bill to break up the powerful monopolies in the food system so that small and medium producers have a fair chance in the marketplace.
Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media. September 7, 2011.
Methyl bromide is a chemical known to cause reproductive harm and can cause blurred or double vision, slurred speech, dizziness, vomiting and abdominal pain.
