Agriculture

Land grabbing: What happens in China and the United States, and what it means on a global scale

IATP's Jim Harkness gave an address on Fair access to food and land - How to stop global land grabbing in the European Parliment on March 8, 2012. This event was hosted by the Greens.

Governments agree on voluntary rules to control land grabs

Three years of negotiations on guidelines to govern the tenure of land, fisheries and forests (commonly referred to as the Voluntary Guidelines, or VG) came to a successful close on Friday, March 9 in Rome.

Climate insurance, not just crop insurance

Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee will hear arguments to expand the federal crop insurance program in the 2012 Farm Bill. Most likely, proponents of this expansion will point to the devastating crop losses wrought by extreme weather last year. Indemnity payouts for 2011 have so far cost taxpayers a record $10 billion, a number expected to grow as claims are processed.

McMillan's The American Way of Eating lifts the veil on food system injustice

Our global food system hinges on secrecy. The anonymous nature of where the food in our supermarket was produced brings one layer of secrecy. But even if you can solve that puzzle, how it was produced—and more specifically under what working conditions it was produced—remains completely hidden.

Remembering Dr. Willard Cochrane

By Ron Leonard

Fasting to lose the bonds of injustice

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are in the fifth day of a 6-day fast to draw attention to the unfair treatment of farmworkers in Florida tomato fields. The target of the fast, supermarket retailer Publix, has refused to join the Fair Food Program.