World hunger related links for more information

For more information on these aspects, you can start at the following.

Food dumping, land rights, and agriculture links

• The Institute for Economic Democracy covers a broad range of issues and ties them together very well. In relation to land rights and agriculture:
  • Subtly Monopolizing Land
  • Unequal Trades in Agriculture
• Dumping Food Aid: Trade or Aid? (subsidized) Food Aid in kind: what is in it for the WTO (PDF Format), Food, Trade and Nutrition Coalition and Wemos, April 2005. This briefing, presented to the WTO looks at the issue of food aid as food dumping, providing a summary of the major issues, and also the main global institutions and countries involved.
• The Food, Trade and Nutrition Coalition, a coalition of organizations works for the realization of the universal right to adequate food, particularly in relation to international trade negotiations at the WTO.
• OneWorld’s Land Rights Guide also points out that it is not a shortage of land but a shortage of rights.
• The Case for Small Farms, an interview with Peter Rosset.
• Free Lunches, Yes: Free Markets, No suggests that sharing common resources such as land is economically a sensible choice.
• Land Rights in Africa has a lot of resources and information on the impacts of limited right to land in various African nations.
• AlterNet.org, a web site of independent and alternative journalism provides a multipart look at some myths about industrial agriculture, highlighting a book, Fatal Harvest, from which the articles are extracted:
  • Myth one: Industrial agriculture will feed the world
  • Myth two: Industrial food is safe, healthy, and nutritious
  • Myth three: Industrial food is cheap
  • Myth four: Industrial agriculture is efficient
  • Myth five: Industrial food offers more choices
  • Myth six: Industrial agriculture benefits the environment and wildlife

Politics of hunger links

• A three-part debate:
  1. Ten reasons why biotechnology will not ensure food security, protect the environment and reduce poverty in the developing world. Altieri, M.A. and Rosset, P. (1999). AgBioForum, 2(3&4), 155-162.
  2. Ten reasons why biotechnology will be important to the developing world. McGloughlin, M (1999). AgBioForum, 2(3&4), 163-174. (A reply to Altieri and Rosset’s points, above.)
  3. Strengthening the case for why biotechnology will not help the developing world: a response to McGloughlin. Altieri, M.A. and Rosset, P. (1999). AgBioForum, 2(3&4), 226-236.
• The Agroecology in Action web site looks at a scientific discipline that uses ecological theory to study, design, manage and evaluate agricultural systems that are productive but also resource conserving.
• The Potential of Agroecology to Combat Hunger in the Developing World suggests an alternative which may provide a number of advantages over the Green Revolution which will also help empower and benefit local people. It is an example of articles on the above Agrecology web site.
• 12 Myths About Hunger from the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
• Lessons from the Green Revolution also from the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
• Readings on Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development from the Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism web site, by Richard H. Robbins of New York State University provides many more additional resources.
• The Politics of Hunger, by Ross Copeland, September 2000 provides an overview of the links between the politics/economics of poverty with hunger.
• OneWorld.net UK’s Food Campaign section provides many articles from a wide variety of sources.