Author: Megan Morrissey

English, Food Sovereignty, Peter Rosset

Fixing our Global Food System: Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform

[Peter Rosset, 2009] The recent world food price crisis highlights what many have thought for a long time: the world’s food and agriculture system is broken. Few winners remain in the aftermath of the severe crisis, in which prices for basic food commodities (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans) increased dramatically in 2007 and 2008, only to fall rapidly in the second half of 2008. Although down … Continue reading Fixing our Global Food System: Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform

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Degrowth, Español, Various

Poner la vida en el centro: respuestas del ecofeminismo y del decrecimiento a la UE

[Ecologistas en Acción, 2010] La Unión Europea es una de las regiones más ricas del planeta. Es rica porque la mayoría de los países que la constituyen tiene un PIB alto. Esto es valorado como algo positivo, porque el PIB indica que el capital de los países y sus economías crecen. Los indicadores económicos, como el PIB y el PNB, contabilizan el conjunto de bienes … Continue reading Poner la vida en el centro: respuestas del ecofeminismo y del decrecimiento a la UE

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English, Nature, Vandana Shiva

The Real Hunger Games

[Vandana Shiva, 2012] Hunger and malnutrition are man-made. They are hardwired in the design of the industrial, chemical model of agriculture. But just as hunger is created by design, healthy and nutritious food for all can also be designed, through food democracy. We are repeatedly told that we will starve without chemical fertilisers. However, chemical fertilisers, which are essentially poison, undermine food security by destroying … Continue reading The Real Hunger Games

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Degrowth, Economy..., Français, Xavier Ricard Lanata

Faut-il encore parler de développement?

[Xavier Ricard Lanata] Forgée dans l’immédiat après-guerre, la notion de développement répondait tout à la fois à un impératif moral (permettre à l’humanité de réaliser effectivement le programme d’émancipation établi par la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme de 1948, puis par le Pacte relatif aux Droits économiques, sociaux et culturels de 1966), et à une nécessité géopolitique : en encourageant le développement économique des … Continue reading Faut-il encore parler de développement?

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Analysis, David Harvey, English, Social Movements

Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition

[David Harvey, World Social Forum 2010] The historical geography of capitalist development is at a key inflexion point in which the geographical configurations of power are rapidly shifting at the very moment when the temporal dynamic is facing very serious constraints.  Three percent compound growth (generally considered the minimum satisfactory growth rate for a healthy capitalist economy) is becoming less and less feasible to sustain … Continue reading Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition

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Ariel Salleh, English, Feminism

Fukushima: A Call for Women’s Leadership

[Ariel Salleh, 2011] On 11 March 2011, the Fukushima nuclear electricity plant in Japan was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. An undetermined land area remains uninhabitable; thousands of people are trying not to breathe, touch, eat or drink, the toxic levels of radiation in their environment. It is believed that BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam and Rio Tinto’s Ranger mine exported uranium from Australia … Continue reading Fukushima: A Call for Women’s Leadership

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