http://allafrica.com

http://www.srfood.org

http://www.g20transparency.com/petition.html

www.business-humanrights.org


STWR_ stwr.org (STWR) http://www.stwr.org/ Great backgrounder for this week’s G20 meeting RT @GdnDevelopment What’s pushing up food prices? | Mark Tran gu.com/p/3v2nb/tf

Oxfam Oxfam International http://www.oxfam.org #Agriculture is on the #G20 agenda – and about time too! http://blogs.oxfam.org/fr/

 

Hunger is not a natural disaster – it’s a political problem. And G20 leaders can and must act to end this scandal.

In the fight to address global food crises, will the French presidency at the G20 summit succeed where others have failed? On the eve of the G20 agriculture summit on 22-23 June, we urgently need to adopt an ambitious action plan. G20 leaders have a decisive role to play in Paris: they must tackle the problems in the food system.

It will take courage from G20 leaders to put the global food system back on track. They will have to break the „myth“ of hunger as being reducible to a technical issue or to a failure of food systems to produce sufficient volumes. The French presidency appears determined to act decisively on the issue of speculation on the agricultural commodities market. But beyond that, the G20 members remain deeply divided over agricultural policy for the 21st century. The outcome of this debate will have real consequences for all humanity.

Five priorities may give this G20 summit a vital role in improving long-term global food security. As the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I call upon G20 leaders to endorse the following priorities, and act upon them:

Food crises: five priorities for the G20 | Olivier De Schutter http://t.co/jNdEDvd via @guardian

 

Report: Eco-Farming Can Feed the World

Post-2011-03-21-DeSchutterNEW: Check out this short video featuring a CBC interview with Olivier de Schutter (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food) discussing the merits of eco-agriculture.

This report – Agro-ecology and the Right to Food – calls for a fundamental shift towards agro-ecology as a way for countries to feed themselves while addressing climate and poverty challenges.

 

 

Special Rapporteur on the right to food
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/food/index.htm


United Nations Millennium Campaign
http://www.facebook.com/mcampaign

 

http://www.sourcewatch.org/Financial Crisis

http://www.sourcewatch.org/Real Economy Project


UN rapporteur talks about the global food crisis – 28 Apr 08 http://www.righttofood.org

 

We Feed the World is a 2005 documentary in which Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat and views modern industrial production of food and factory farming in a critical light. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria.

 

The movie features interviews with several people, including one with sociologist and politician Jean Ziegler.

 

http://www.we-feed-the-world.at/en/facts.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Feed_the_World

 

Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation.

 

Official Site:

http://www.foodincmovie.com

 

http://www.euronews.net http://www.euronews.net/nocomment http://www.rferl.org