This week the United National Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20 kicks off in Rio. Consisting of world leaders and thousands of participants from all forms and...
A new report commissioned by ActionAid shows that biofuel targets set by the EU will lead directly to an increase in the prices of key agricultural commodities worldwide by 2020. And – while...
You can’t listen to negotiations for much more than 15 minutes here at the Rio+20 summit before you hear the expression “I am in your hands”. It’s not an expression of love between negotiators, but...
The first day of negotiations for the Rio+20 outcome document ended with very little progress.Kirsten (ActionAid Denmark), Elisa (AA Brazil) and Roberto (AA Italy) were present following closely on...
Representatives of world governments are gathering this week in Rio de Janeiro for the final round of negotiations prior to next week’s Earth Summit. The gathering, commemorating twenty years since...
Last Friday 11 of May was a bright day in Rome for me, my colleagues and for millions of poor rural people and small scale farmers whose rights of access to natural resources were recognized for the...
There is widespread agreement that biofuels expansion, with its direct diversion of food and feed crops and its indirect impact through competition for land and other food-producing resources, has...
Inspired by our discussions at Activista The Gambia we took upon ourselves the task of going to the market to make a small survey on the effects of the food crisis to think about means of prevention...
This toolkit and how to use itHunger is the world’s biggest killer but it can be stopped, if politicians take notice and do something. That’s where you come in. This toolkit is a key part of the We...
"Bio fuel is this marvellous idea that we should make food not in order to eat it but to burn it" - Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved*“We don’t drive cars or tractors. Then why should we...
