The power of poverty — rather than consumer sovereignty — determines the rational choices of “our people”.
How the longevity of absurd economic theories shortens the lives of untold millions
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Food Security
Breaking the trade chains that perpetuate food for the few and hunger for the many (Part Three)
All the trade agreements that guarantee food insecurity for most people enjoy parliamentary approval.
Our food systems are designed to perpetuate food insecurity for the many (Part Two)
The lack of economic access to healthy diets is a critical issue, impacting over a third of the world’s population.
Government chooses food poverty for the many amid exports enriching the few (Part One)
Profit maximisation is why exporting food remains agri-businesses’ first prize, for it is much more profitable than selling on a home market.
Imagining development alternatives from the heart of the extractivist monster
Anti-extractivist movements, campaigns and networks such as the Right to Say NO in Southern Africa not only provide powerful critiques of extractivism and the growth-focused development model. They also have radical political potential. They are imagining just and...