Ted Greiner, Professor of Nutrition, Hanyang University, Korea (Photo Credit: Jon Orlando) Surely one of the most precious of human dreams is to become rich and famous by doing good for others. And what could …
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Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation?
Jonathan Latham, PhD (Photo Credit: auspices) Imagine an international mega-deal. The global organic food industry agrees to support international agribusiness in clearing as much tropical rainforest as they want for farming. In return, agribusiness agrees …
Continue readingNew Report Links Food, Climate and Agricultural Policies
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Understanding of the ‘problem’ of agriculture took a giant step forward in 2007 with publication of the UN IAASTD report. This report, which was as important for agriculture as the …
Continue readingFood is Different: Why we must get the WTO out of Agriculture
Over the last ten years however a rough consensus has emerged among a large number of family farm groups, academics, economists, trades unions and development organisations that trade liberalisation in the food sector (via the WTO and other free trade agreements) is achieving the precise opposite.
Continue readingThe Killing of the Countryside
Book Author: Graham Harvey Reviewed by Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) Visitors to Britain are always being asked to admire the “unspoiled countryside” of a particular region, but landscapes are more than just photo …
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