World hunger related links for more information

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Food dumping, land rights, and agriculture links

• The Institute for Economic Democracy¹ covers a broad range of issues and ties them together very well. In relation to land rights and agriculture:
  • Subtly Monopolizing Land²
  • Unequal Trades in Agriculture³
• Dumping Food Aid: Trade or Aid? (subsidized) Food Aid in kind: what is in it for the WTO (PDF Format) ⁴, 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 Coalition⁵, 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 Guide⁶ also points out that it is not a shortage of land but a shortage of rights.
• The Case for Small Farms⁷, an interview with Peter Rosset.
• Free Lunches, Yes: Free Markets, No⁸ suggests that sharing common resources such as land is economically a sensible choice.
• Land Rights in Africa⁹ 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 world¹⁰
  • Myth two: Industrial food is safe, healthy, and nutritious¹¹
  • Myth three: Industrial food is cheap¹²
  • Myth four: Industrial agriculture is efficient¹³
  • Myth five: Industrial food offers more choices¹⁴
  • Myth six: Industrial agriculture benefits the environment and wildlife¹⁵

Politics of hunger links

• A three-part debate:
  1. Ten reasons why biotechnology will not ensure food security¹⁶, 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 world¹⁷. 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 world¹⁸: a response to McGloughlin. Altieri, M.A. and Rosset, P. (1999). AgBioForum, 2(3&4), 226-236.
• The Agroecology in Action¹⁹ 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 World²⁰ 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 Hunger²¹ from the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
• Lessons from the Green Revolution²² also from the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
• Readings on Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development²³ 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 Hunger²⁴, by Ross Copeland, September 2000 provides an overview of the links between the politics/economics of poverty with hunger.
• OneWorld.net UK’s Food Campaign²⁵ section provides many articles from a wide variety of sources.

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