Tag Archives: inequality

Conflict, hunger and avoiding a world further divided

Posted on 27 October 2022 by Geoff Tansey

Conflict, hunger and food insecurity are inexplicably linked. That is why I have always been concerned about the wider dimensions of development beyond the food system. Forty years ago next year, I help convene a workshop on militarism and development. … Continue reading →

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We can, but don’t, feed everyone on Earth and there’s #NoPlanetB to go to, says Mike Berners-Lee

Posted on 11 March 2019 by Geoff Tansey

We live in the anthropocene age. It’s a time when what people do changes how the Earth works – and whether it will be comfortable for us all to live on it or not. Today, humanity needs to wake up … Continue reading →

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Intellectual property fundamentally contributes to #inequality argues Peter Drahos

Posted on 9 May 2018 by Geoff Tansey

One of the biggest changes in  food systems in recent decades has been the widespread expansion of the intellectual property (IP) regime from seeds to trademarks to access to knowledge. This is having a major impact across the world in … Continue reading →

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#Inequality and why it matters – an interview with Richard Wilkinson, co-author of ‘The Spirit Level- Why #Equality is Better for Everyone’

Posted on 24 May 2017 by Geoff Tansey

Earlier this year the authors of a widely read book that examined why equality is better for everyone gave a lecture locally. I had a chance to interview one of the authors, Prof Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology … Continue reading →

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Addressing #hunger, #debt, #trade and #finance – a lifetime’s work for Susan George

Posted on 14 April 2016 by Geoff Tansey

Susan George has been an indefatigable campaigner for a fairer world all her life. Her first book ‘How the Other Half Dies – the real reasons for world hunger’ published in the mid 1970s was hugely influential on a whole … Continue reading →

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A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind – Fabian Commission #foodandpoverty interim report

Posted on 17 March 2015 by Geoff Tansey

I’m on my way to Glasgow to chair a hearing of the Fabian Commision on Food and Poverty tonight. Yesterday, we released our interim report ‘A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind’. You can … Continue reading →

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