‘Where men seeking to grab power once looked to acquire territories and slaves, now the entire globe and its productive capacity’ is up for grabs, writes Vandana Shiva, in the foreword to Pambazuka Press’ latest title, ‘Earth Grab’. The book’s ‘three groundbreaking...
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Food Sovereignty Campaign Protest March against “Poisonous Maize” | by The Editor, Ons Kontrei
LUTZVILLE: Objections against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) in South Africa were made on Friday 7 October 2011 through a placard demonstration on the farm Klipheuwel in Lutzville. The USA based multinational corporation Monsanto planted experimental...
Food Sovereignty Campaign Protest March against “Poisonous Maize” | by The Editor, Ons Kontrei
LUTZVILLE: Objections against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) in South Africa were made on Friday 7 October 2011 through a placard demonstration on the farm Klipheuwel in Lutzville. The USA based multinational corporation Monsanto planted experimental...
Is Water the Hidden Agenda of Agricultural Land Acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa? | by P Woodhouse and A S Ganho
Introduction: Land Grab and water requirements Availability of adequate moisture is a fundamental requirement for agricultural use of land. Designation of exclusive rights to use land provides prior rights to ‘green’ water (rainfall and plant transpiration) on that...
Biofuels, speculators driving food price surges | by Kanya D’Almeida
A new report on global hunger pinpoints factors at the heart of spikes in food prices it says are exacerbating the unfolding food crisis in the Horn of Africa. Released ahead of World Food Day on Oct. 16, the report calls for action to control price volatility in the...
ACB STATEMENT: PATEL’S NEW GROWTH PATH (NGP) SUPPORTS GREEN REVOLUTION FOR SMALL HOLDER FARMERS AND BIOFUELS
The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) is deeply disturbed and disappointed that Minister Patel’s New Growth Path (NGP) has not embraced new thinking on agriculture policy which requires breaking from a wholly inequitable and ecologically unsustainable...
What Does Wage-Led Growth Mean in Developing Countries With Large Informal Employment?
By Jayati GhoshThe past decade has been one in which export-led economic strategies have come to be seen as the most successful, driven by the apparent success of two countries in particular - China and Germany. In fact, the export-driven model of growth has much...
Ten Key Questions on Climate Change
Climate change is a political and scientific conundrum. From the denialism of the George Bush era to the neo-liberal imperatives of carbon trading, the subject is confusing, and an activist agenda is sometimes a navigational minefield. David Fig helps Amandla! to...



