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- Ten reasons why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for another green revolution will not solve the problems of poverty and hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa
- E. Holt-Gimenez;M. Altieri;P. Rosset / Institute for Food and Development Policy , 2008
- This article analyses the effectiveness of the investment that the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced - a joint ‘Alliance for a Green Revolutio...
- Going local on a global scale: rethinking food trade in the era of climate change, dumping, and rural poverty
- K. Schwind / Institute for Food and Development Policy , 2005
- This brief discusses how producing and marketing more food locally can help alleviate both global climate change and rural poverty. It argues that building these local food systems requires rethinking...
- Famine and the future of food security in North Korea
- C. Ahn / Institute for Food and Development Policy , 2005
- This report examines North Korea’s insistence on food self-sufficiency by outlining its history and exploring the causes of its recent famine and the deep roots of its self-sufficiency or juche ideolo...
- Voices from the south: the third world debunks corporate myths on genetically engineered crops
- E. Hickey; A. Mittal / Institute for Food and Development Policy , 2003
- This paper discusses the common myths regarding genetically engineered crops, from a southern perspective. In discussing the commonplace myths, the paper draws from numerous contributions from the so...
- The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger
- R. Patel; A. Delwiche / Institute for Food and Development Policy , 2002
- This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa. It argues that famine and malnutrition are the product of poverty, not of food shortage, and that this is the re...
- Tides shift on agrarian reform: new movements show the way
- P. Rosset / Institute for Food and Development Policy , 2001
- This paper first introduces the concept of land redistribution of land through agrarian reform, that would allow for a more inclusive model of development. The author then demonstrates how land concen...
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