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

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