Rethinking Agrarian Futures through Local Action (ReAL) in Costa Rica
This article shares the experiences of three Indigenous women’s groups that are actively defending their lands and practicing food sovereignty in Costa Rica; these experiences take place within a project from UPEACE’s Department of Environment and Development with the support of the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.
Hacerle la paz al hambre
Waging Peace On Hunger Author: Frederick Livingston Translated into Spanish by Gilma Cristina Sánchez Cossio There has always been enough. Therein lies the tragedy of a world where almost 1 billion people go hungry, while twice that number suffer the health consequences of over-nutrition (Popkin, 2017). Despite centuries of famine predictions, food production has continued […]
Europe’s second conquest of Latin America
With a view to promoting public discussion and debate about these agreements, we present here an analysis of the implications and scope of some of those that have already been signed. We also analyse the implications of some European Union documents, published over the last two years, that set out the EU’s strategy and intentions in the negotiations.
The creation of Iraq’s food insecurity 1980-2008
The fertile lands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the wheat planes just south of Basra were, until the 1980s, the base of a robust agricultural sector in modern Iraq. This essay traces the steady and tragic decline of the Iraqi food system over the last 3 decades, emphasizing the political and economic policies of the US, Turkey, the former Baathist regime in Iraq, and the UN.