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"The biggest corporate takeover on the planet is the hijacking of the food system, the cost of which has had huge and irreversible consequences for the Earth and people everywhere."

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"On its website, biotech giant Monsanto claims that it is a company “committed to sustainable agriculture.” While these words might sound warm and fuzzy, you just have to survey Monsanto’s actions over the past few decades to know that it has no real understanding of they mean."

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"The government has pledged to address child malnutrition and child mortality among poor families in Bangladesh, but the rising price of food is exacerbating the situation"

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"Malnutrition is the root cause of the deaths of 2.6 million children each year, and the bodies and brains of 450 million more will fail to develop properly due to inadequate diet over the next 15 years unless immediate action is taken, according to a survey published on Wednesday by a leading international charity."

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"Save the Children is to be applauded for reminding us all of one of the most extraordinary and humiliating aspects of living in the modern world: child hunger."

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Rising food prices and recession resulting in lower income households cutting their recommended five-a-day portions

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In the Bay Area, one doesn’t have to venture far before coming across a local favorite, the Arizmendi Bakeries. Backed by a development and support cooperative, the Arizmendi Association has 6 cooperative bakeries that specialize in morning pastries, artisan breads and gourmet pizza. Together, these bakeries comprise one of the most successful worker owned associations in the region.

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Joining the neo-colonial bandwagon, Indian companies are taking over agricultural land in African nations and exporting produced food at the cost of locals

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It is being dubbed the second scramble for Africa: millions of acres of land are being snapped up by companies from Asia and the Middle East, our foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman reports.

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Over the holidays, the United States Department of Agriculture announced its approval of a novel strain of genetically engineered corn, developed by Monsanto, purportedly being “drought tolerant.”

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Jason Jordan, Erin Singer, Simone Chou, and Sue Lopez talk about being worker-owners at Arizmendi Bakery in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood.

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On this past December 4, food activists from across the country joined the Occupy Wall Street Farmers March for "a celebration of community power to regain control over the most basic element to human well-being: food."

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When Citadel Capital announced its plan to open an eastern Africa office in Nairobi by January this year, there was little excitement even as the Egyptian firm went ahead to explain that its interest in the region will extend to food transport.

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It is a nation built on the abolition of slavery, but there are at least 40,000 slaves in the US today.

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"Global food prices remain near a record high, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "

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"The crisis in the Horn of Africa is an imperialist-imposed crisis that began long before the current drought we experience."

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"Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That's an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses."

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The worst drought in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions, the United Nations has said. More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda and the situation is deteriorating.

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the spread of disease is the inevitable, and predictable, consequence of heavily industrialised food production run for profit.

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Higher temperatures will reduce growing seasons critical for crops needed to feed the world's poor, a report says

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