Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Global Food Crisis
Riots in Haiti , Burkina Faso, Cameroon,Cote d'Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Yemen and more. Massive crisis in Somalia
Sky rocketing prices due to rising fuel costs, weather problems as well as the push to create biofuels from cereal crops.
World bank’s genetically-engineered Green Revolution
US farm subsidies
Robert Berold > an alternative take on farming (see Drive Out Hunger: The story of J.J.Machobane of Lesotho by Robert Berold & J.J. Machobane and People's Workbook a manual of rural practical skills by Robert Berold et. al.)
Comparison to Cuba’s response to the food crisis created by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989?
“Nongqawuse pattern” - Achille Mbembe
Labels:
Definite Stories,
Economy,
food,
food crisis,
Global,
globalisation,
money
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