Reports

Global Food Responsibility: The European Union and United States Must Chart a New Path

The U.S. and the European Union have a particular responsibility to address the global food crisis. This report outlines how they could play a constructive role.

Faith Communities and Healthy Eating: Issues and Opportunities for Moving Forward in Minnesota

This report explores the potential for faith communities to be change agents in supporting healthy eating in Minnesota communities.

Food and Faith: Action Strategies for Healthy Eating

Across the country, faith communities have been putting their beliefs about food and healthy eating into action.

Identifying Our Climate Foodprint

A look at the entire food system and opportunities to shift to a climate-friendly system. The industrial model of farming with massive resource intensive inputs for crops and livestock is the largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions throughout the food system.

Regulating Commodities Speculation: Normative and Fiscal Means

This paper was presented at the UNCTAD Public Symposium, The Way Forward, held in Geneva, May 18 to 19, 2009.

Integrated Solutions to the Water, Agriculture and Climate Crises

This report outlines the connections between the water, agriculture and climate crises and the role industrial agriculture has played in contributing to the problem. Because these three areas are so inter-connected they can no longer be handled in isolation from each other and a comprehensive approach is now needed.

Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and High Fructose Corn Syrup

Mercury is a potent brain toxin and for decades high fructose corn syrup, an increasingly common ingredient in processed foods, has been made using mercury caustic soda. This study looks at the mercury content in foods that list high fructose corn syrup as a main ingredient.