World Food Is Running Dry for Too Many

11Jul09

Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more people into poverty. But unlike previous shocks driven by short-term food shortages, this price spike came in a year when the world’s farmers reaped a record grain crop. This time, the high prices were a symptom of a larger problem tugging at the strands of our worldwide food web, one that’s not going away anytime soon. Simply put: For most of the past decade, the world has been consuming more food than it has been producing. After years of drawing down stockpiles, in 2007 the world saw global carryover stocks fall to 61 days of global consumption, the second lowest on record.

Filed under: Agriculture, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Policy and Law, Society   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: corn, crisis, famine, Food, grain, hogs, hunger, Jeffrey Sachs, maize, Malthus, Millenium Development Goals, Millenium Villages, pigs, pork, poverty, security, shock, sovereignty, soybean, wheat

Cheap Food as Charity? Shaky Foundations?

20Apr09

Sunny gives a video summary of the first 2 panels (low income food access and locally sustainable food supply) at the Ontario’s Test Kitchen Conference.

Filed under: Conferences, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Food, Food Distribution, Food Retail, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Health and Wellness, Non Profits/Not for Profits, Policy and Law, Soil Management, Toronto   |  2 Comments
Tags: Alison Blay-Palmer, alternative, ALUS, change, conference, Daily Bread Food Bank, distribution, environmental services, Food, GET, income, Janet Poppendieck, kitchen, land, Local Food Plus, Marin Organic, Ontario, reform, security, sink, Society, solutions, sovereignty, STOP, sustainable, Sweet Charity, system, use, video, Wayne Roberts, YuRanch

Food Matters – The Movie (Dead Serious!)

05Dec08

“With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and ourtendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with
our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. ‘Food Matters’ sets about uncovering the trillion dollar
worldwide “Sickness Industry” and giving people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.” – James

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Tags: antibiotics, cancer, chemical, diabetes, diet, diseases, Food, health, healthy living, herbicide, hormones, obesity, pesticide, security, sovereignty, toxin

Hmong Farmers: Booted Off Their Urban Land

27Oct08

4 acre piece of land farmed by Hmong Farmers in Fresno. The city is trying to push them off the land to build a police substation, the land currently feeds 300
peoples.

Filed under: Ethnic Agriculture, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Urban Agriculture   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: Agriculture, city, development, ethnic, Food, Hmong, immigrant, insecurity, racial, security, sovereignty, urban