For those interested, the statements referenced in Carin's last blog by Henry Saragih of La Via Campesina and Ben Powless of the Indigenous Environmental Network before participants at the UN Food and Agriculture Organizat
IATP President Jim Harkness is blogging from China through June 14. Due to internet access problems, Jim sent this blog via e-mail. I am posting it for him - Ben
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, released an important report last week scrutinizing U.S. based efforts to relieve hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa (a one page summary is accessible here).
It is always a pleasure to read Amartya Sen. He is a Nobel Prize winner (1998), has written extensively on famine, hunger, gender issues, human rights and politics.
This week, the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held a “Special Meeting on the global food crisis” at the UN headquarters in New York. The meeting's goal was to help move the international community towards action in addressing the causes of the food crisis.
