Rethinking the Sandwich: the Globalization of Wheat Rust Ignored orphan crops from the developing world may be the White Knight that rescues the Green Revolution from the Red Queen. Read more 20 August 2010, by Miller McCune
Big Food’s expansion into the developing world Has Big Food already run out of customers in cities and other locales that are more readily accessible by land? Nestle Stoops to New (…) 20 August 2010, by AlterNet
South-South cooperation offers new opportunities for transforming African economies A new study warns that trade and investment flows with the South are reinforcing a longstanding trend in which African countries export (…) 1 July 2010, by AfricaFocus
Financialisation and Financial Actors in Agriculture Commodity Markets Financing Food focuses on how derivative markets work and on speculation in food and agricultural products. This study demonstrates how (…) 17 June 2010, by TNI
Le franc CFA, un outil de contrôle politique et économique sur les pays africains de la zone franc La zone franc et sa monnaie le franc CFA constituent le seul système monétaire colonial au monde à avoir survécu à la décolonisation. La (…) 29 mars 2010, par Survie
El Nuevo acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina La historia de América Latina es una historia de conflictos agrarios, en defensa de los territorios ancestrales de los pueblos. Pero (…) 25 de marzo de 2010, por Grain
China Lassoes its Neighbors Through CAFTA Trade Agreement It might be the world’s largest free trade area, writes columnist Walden Bello, but Southeast Asia is still getting a raw trade deal (…) 22 March 2010, by Foreign Policy in Focus , BELLO Walden
Upsetting the offset. The Political Economy of Carbon Markets Steffen Böhm & Siddhartha Dabhi (eds), Mayfly Books, 2009 Upsetting the Offset engages critically with the political economy of carbon markets. It presents a range of case studies and critiques (…) 22 March 2010
Globalization on the rocks Corporate globalization in the ‘real’ world economy lay behind what appeared at first to be a strictly financial crisis. It was hooked (…) 12 March 2010, by New Internationalist
Fair Miles: Recharting the food miles map Today’s food is well travelled. A pack of green beans in a Northern supermarket may have journeyed 6000 miles, or 60. But while food (…) 17 December 2009, by IIED