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Tag Archives: poverty
Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them
Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University, London, spends 2 years writing Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them and when it comes out it is in the midst of a global pandemic when feeding … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews
Tagged Britain, COVID-19, environment, food, food policy, food systems, health, labout, poverty, sustainability, UK
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From #diet for a small planet, to myths about world #hunger to living democracy and hope – a conversation with Frances Moore Lappé
It was quite fitting that Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) invited Frances Moore Lappé to give a keynote speech at its 2nd birthday party in mid-July. Frances has had a huge impact with her work spanning … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged democracy, Farming, food, food security, food system, hope, hunger, poverty, Small Planet Institute, sustainability
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From India’s green to greed to evergreen revolution – M S Swaminathen discusses a lifetime’s work
In 2009, I met M S Swaminathan during a visit to India. A plant genetistist, who was at Cambridge at the same time as Watson and Crick, he is often known as the father of India’s green revolution. A towering … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged Agriculture, Biotechnology, climate change, Farming, food security, food system, Green Revolution, hunger, India, M S Swaminathan, patents, poverty, seeds, Soils, sustainability
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Addressing #hunger, #debt, #trade and #finance – a lifetime’s work for Susan George
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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Tagged climate change, debt, Farming, Finance, food security, food system, hunger, inequality, poverty, power, Susan George, Trade, TTIP, Washington Consensus, World Bank
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@_RajPatel on #sugar, capitalism and seven cheap things
Capitalism began with sugar argues Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for The World’s Food System. He was talking about a new book he’s working on at a meeting on Critical Agrarian Studies … Continue reading
Why we must change now by UK’s #FoodSecurity champion, Tim Benton
Tim Benton has got quite a title. He is the champion for the UK Global Food Security Programme. He is also a professor in population ecology at the University of Leeds. In January, he was one of the witnesses at … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Agriculture, climate change, Farming, food security, food stocks, poverty
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A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind – Fabian Commission #foodandpoverty interim report
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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Tagged feeding britain, food and poverty, food banks, food security, food system, inequality, poverty, right to food, UK
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Please contribute to the Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty
When I first started to work on developing the journal Food Policy in the 1970s, there were no food banks in Britain. In fact, Britain was at its most equal since the early 1900s. Today food banks are spreading like … Continue reading
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Tagged Fabian Society, FAO, food, food insecurity, food security, hunger, poverty
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Sustainable intensification – miracle or mirage?
That was the title of a conference at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House, in London on the 10th and 11th of December 2012. Because it was held under the Chatham House Rule you may find this a … Continue reading
Corporate charity undermines the human right to adequate #food and #nutrition
It’s nearly 4 years since I interviewed Prof Graham Riches about growing levels of hunger in rich countries in Europe and North America. Since then we’ve had the Hungry for Change report from the Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty, … Continue reading →