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Issue No. 240/241 (Aug/Sept 2010)
COVER:
A New Food Crisis? Some aspects of the food question
Massive
bank and hedge fund speculation causes food prices to soar
Banks and hedge funds speculating on
the price of food are primarily responsible for the recent steep rise
in wheat prices.
TIM JONES
Financial
speculation and the food crisis
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right
to food underscores the crucial importance of reforming the global financial
system to attain the goal of food security.
OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER
Food
price volatility a major threat to food security – FAO
Experts from member states of the UN
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned that unexpected price
hikes are a major threat to food security.
Food
rebellions: Mozambicans know which way the wind blows
For the world's poor, the 2008 food
crisis never ended.
RAJ PATEL
Russia's
agony a 'wake-up call' to the world
The heatwave in Russia that decimated
the country's crops is a stark reminder of the vulnerability of food
supplies to climate change.
STEPHEN LEAHY
Food
crises and national security
Only an integrated Arab union can provide
food security for all countries of the region.
MOHAMED ABDEL-MAGUID
The
2007-08 food crisis: Have the lessons been learnt?
While the world has learnt much from
the 2007-08 global food crisis, it is doubtful whether policy makers
will effectively use the lessons that it offers.
FREDERIC MOUSSEAU
Looking
in a gift horse's mouth
The 'New Green Revolution for Africa',
launched by the philanthropic foundation established by Microsoft founder
Bill Gates, may not be so green after all.
PHILIP L BEREANO & TRAVIS M ENGLISH
The
food crisis is not about a food shortage
The ultimate cause of hunger is not
a lack of Western agricultural technology but the failure to allow people
to participate in a food system of their own choosing.
JIM GOODMAN
The
wrongs about the right to food
Narrowing the right to food by 'targeting'
social groups which are 'truly deserving' may provide a tool to manage
and legitimise the unequal social relations which govern the food economy.
ANANYA MUKHERJEE
ECOLOGY
Healing
the wounds of mining
The Native American peoples of the Desert
Southwest region of the United
States still continue their resistance
against the devastation of their lives and environment by US mining
corporations.
BRAD MILLER
CLIMATE CHANGE
Leaving
oil in the ground to fight climate change
A new initiative to fight climate change
and conserve forests by leaving oil in the ground has taken off in Ecuador.
MARTIN KHOR
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ECONOMICS
Basel Committee sets higher global capital standards for banks
Basel III, a package of new capital
and liquidity rules for banks to strengthen their resilience against
future financial shocks, comes under examination.
KANAGA RAJA
The
credit meltdown and the shadow banking system: What Basel III missed
The credit machine of the Wall Street
‘shadow banking system' is systemically flawed and needs a radical overhaul.
ELLEN BROWN
Rethink
export-led growth paradigm, says UNCTAD
UNCTAD has warned countries with export-led
economies to reconsider their strategies in view of the end of the US consumption
boom.
KANAGA RAJA
Focus
on growth, not deficits, economists tell Obama
Some 300 economists and civic leaders
have issued the following statement urging the US President to stay the course of
promoting growth and jobs.
Poverty
rises as Wall Street billionaires whine
One in seven Americans may now be mired
in poverty, but it is the super-rich who are complaining the most!
LES LEOPOLD
WORLD AFFAIRS
Satan
of the details
A framework agreement is not a peace
treaty.
URI AVNERY
Yawn
of a new day
Burma is on the threshold of its most
important political event in two decades, but public indifference is
palpable.
NEIL LAWRENCE
Don't
celebrate Mexico's
independence ... yet
Why Mexicans have little cause for cheer
on the occasion of the bicentennial of their country's independence.
MANUEL PEREZ-ROCHA
HUMAN RIGHTS
Chile:
Make good on concern for worker safety, say unions
Unions have called for swift action
to address the long-festering issue of worker safety.
DANIELA ESTRADA
WOMEN
Maternal
deaths fall around the world
The maternal mortality situation in
sub-Saharan Africa is still cause for serious concern.
SUSAN ANYANGU-AMU
MEDIA
The
phone-hacking scandal and Murdoch's media empire
An old scandal involving phone-tapping
has resurfaced to haunt media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
TOM FAWTHROP
Full
disclosure: Buying Venezuela's
press with US
tax dollars
The US
has been covertly funding opposition-aligned journalists in Venezuela.
JEREMY BIGWOOD
VIEWPOINT
The
shrunken state
The real goal of the British coalition
government's economic reforms is to shrink the state so that the private
sector might flourish once more.
JEREMY SEABROOK
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