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Local Economies vs Global Economies - Food is Not just a Commodity If we have a ravished earth there is no economy. Globalization is taking us back to the most primitive of economies. It is time to readjust our priorities. We have to move from economies that are killing us, democracies that are dying, we need to move to living democracies, local living economies before too much is destroyed. Via pdjmoo 
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The fact that the climate is already changing, and will continue to change, means we need to start adapting agriculture to a warmer world immediately...
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Population growth and rising consumption by a minority of people around the world are fuelling global land acquisitions and Africa is a “prime target”, says the International Land Coalition.
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The Big Downturn? Nanogeopolitics, ETC Group’s new 68-page report on global governance of nanoscale technologies, is an update of our 2005 Nanogeopolitics survey. In the intervening five years, policymakers – some kicking and screaming – have begun to acknowledge that fast-tracking nanotech has come at a price and that some sort of regulation is needed to deal with at least some of the risks nanoscale technologies pose. But governments and industry, hand in hand, have come too far and invested too much to give up on nanotech’s promise of becoming the strategic platform for global control of manufacturing, food, agriculture and health – a pillar of the 21st century’s “green economy.” This report revisits nano’s geopolitical landscape, providing a current snapshot of global investment, markets, governance and control, including intellectual property.
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The world cannot eliminate hunger without closing the gap between men and women in agriculture. With equal access to productive resources and services, such as land, water and credit, women farmers can produce 20 to 30 percent more food, enough to lift 150 million people out of hunger.
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Working in cahoots with its erstwhile rival Monsanto, Dow is on the verge of unleashing a chemical gusher onto US farmland—with the USDA's blessing.
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A new, crowd-sourced website plans to document every angle of the food system. Given its stated aim of documenting "the entire food system", and given that ANYONE can upload photos and tell the story of their food, it seems like there is an opportunity for activists to tell the stories of the industrial food system through this platform too.
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New VIDEO report calls for sweeping agricultural reform...
March 1, 2013 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
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As Greece’s economy plunges and unemployment rises, many Greeks are fleeing to the countryside and looking to the nation’s rich agricultural past as a guide to the future.
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USDA and Big Ag has Great Power Leverage it seems: Tories and Labour renew backing for GM food crops
Farming minister tells conference GM can help meet rising food demand, while Mary Creagh MP calls for 'open mind' on GM (Food Security: Guardian ‘Tories and Labour renew backing for GM food crops’
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