“In this situation, we
cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships
which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so,
we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere
on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.”“The
day is not far off,” Kennan concluded, “when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.”
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The oil we eat: Following the food chain back to Iraq, By Richard Manning (Harper's Magazine)
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Africa's Unnatural Disaster
The strategies of the World Bank and IMF have successfully applied shock doctrine methods to plunder the globe, causing widespread hardship and suffering, for the benefit of the few and creating millions of victims. They are the embodiment of psychopathy on a global scale, and from that perspective, they are not 'failed', but actually a devastating and horrific success.
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Climate change and adaptation in African agriculture
The development of climate projections for Africa is evolving rapidly, yet little is known about how effectively this data is being utilised. This study, commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, set out to identify and understand the extent to which, and ways in which, information from climate change models is being integrated into agricultural development practice and decision making in Africa.
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FAO: SD Dimensions
The challenge facing agriculture is to satisfy people's rights to food security and, at the same time, ensure that the natural resource base remains productive for the future. As populations grow, and land and water resources dwindle, the world must make a rapid shift to sustainable agriculture and rural development. This approach seeks to ensure that present and future generations have equal access to the total capital of natural and human resources. The Sustainable Development Department (SD) serves as a global reference centre for knowledge and advice on biophysical, biological, socio-economic and social dimensions of sustainable development. It was established by FAO in January 1995, in response to the need to take a more holistic and strategic approach to development support and poverty alleviation. SD focuses on four key dimensions of sustainability:
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SD : Institutions: State reforms and the decentralization of the agricultural and rural public sector: Lessons from the Latin American experience
This paper is about strengthening the institutions that ensure good governance. Strengthening the institutional capacities of local governments is important for: 1) economic reasons (e.g. productive and allocative efficiency), 2) equity reasons (territorial and social equity); and 3) political reasons (e.g. elected officers' accountability to citizens, citizens' participation in decision-making, and democratization of decision-making).
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The Cutting Edge: Peak Food: Blaming the Victims
Driven by capitalist imperatives for short-term profit maximisation and long-term cost-minimisation, global agribusiness has established an international food production system that is, basically, dying.
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Labor Rights in Guatemala Aided Little by Trade Deal - washingtonpost.com
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Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis - Green Living, Environment - The Independent
Cargill says that its results "reflect the cumulative effect of having invested more than $18bn in fixed and working capital over the past seven years to expand our physical facilities, service capabilities, and knowledge around the world". The revelations are bound to increase outrage over multinational companies following last week's disclosure that Shell and BP between them recorded profits of £14bn in the first three months of the year – or £3m an hour – on the back of rising oil prices. Shell promptly attracted even greater condemnation by announcing that it was pulling out of plans to build the world's biggest wind farm off the Kent coast. World leaders are to meet next month at a special summit on the food crisis, and it will be high on the agenda of the G8 summit of the world's richest countries in Hokkaido, Japan, in July.
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Pambazuka News
An absolute priority has to be given to domestic food production in order to decrease dependency on the international market. Peasants and small farmers should be encouraged through better prices for their farm products and stable markets to produce food for themselves and their communities. Landless families from rural and urban areas have to get access to land, seeds and water to produce their own food. This means increased investment in peasant and farmer-based food production for domestic markets.
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Agriculture for Development - World Development Report (WDR) 2008
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Spore - N°134 - April 2008
A wide-ranging book looking at some of the forces and rules shaping today's food system, and who has control over it. In particular, it looks at rules on intellectual property (IP) - patents, plant breeders' rights, trademarks and copyright - and how they relate to biodiversity, a fundamental prerequisite to food security.
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development - knowledge, collaboration, information, partnerships
Raise awareness on the role of ICT4D in poverty alleviation. Since the use of ICT in agriculture is still a new and rapidly changing area, there is a need to raise awareness among governments, other national stakeholders and the international donor community on the potential.
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[Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières] Make Fair Trade? Oxfam and Free Trade (a debate)
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PLEC Tanzania
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