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Hans van Scharen and Irene Keizer – A new agri mega merger, where are political rightwingers when farmers need them?

September 10, 2024 David Shirreff 0

While mega-mergers, just like international free trade agreements, have been shown to have profound and long lasting impacts on farmers and their livelihoods, right wing politicians seem to have no problem with them. Hans van […]

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Adina Florea et al – On Edge: Europe’s Farmers at a Mental Health Breaking Point 

September 2, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Farmers in Greece, Spain, Romania, Czechia, and Poland explain why they are on the brink, financially and mentally. Adina Florea is a freelance journalist specialising in labour migration, minority rights, and environmental issues in Eastern Europe.  Apolena Rychlíková Apolena Rychlíková is […]

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Audrey Gaughran, Çağrı Çavuş, Vincent Kiezebrink – How Agriculture’s “Big Five” Thrive in Crisis

August 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Unrestrained concentration in the agricultural commodity market has allowed a handful of companies to maximise profits during a global food crisis. Audrey Gaughran is the Executive Director of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations […]

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ARC – Re-CAP: Breaking down the breakdown of the EU’s green farming measures

August 4, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 1

The last few months have been a rollercoaster ride for the EU’s farming subsidy programme, which has seen its green ambitions sacrificed on the altar of food security and politics Cross-posted from the ARC website […]

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Stefano Liberti, Francesco Bellina – Tropical Italy: Sicily’s Mango and Avocado Boom

June 16, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Some southern Italian farmers are adapting to warmer temperatures by planting tropical fruit, but it won’t offset the agriculture that is being lost due to extreme weather. Francesco Bellina is a photographer based in Palermo, […]

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Thomas Fazi: Reclaiming food sovereignty: an alternative approach to trade and agriculture

June 6, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The European Union’s approach to trade and agriculture is damaging Europe’s farmers and threatening our food security Read HERE

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GPEnewsdocs: Gilles Billen – Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix

April 25, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 2

Gilles Billen shows that industrial agriculture, propelled by international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle. This has provoked the crossing of planetary boundaries and endangered the possibility of feeding the world. Alternatives do […]

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Alex Park – Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

April 23, 2024 David Shirreff 0

From South Africa to Ukraine, five industrial chicken companies that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Alex Park is a journalist and researcher based in California Cross-posted […]

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Environment

Saeed Bagheri: The Silent Victim of Israel’s War on Gaza

April 9, 2024 David Shirreff 0

More than 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been destroyed in Gaza since October. Read HERE Photo: RafahKid Kid/Creative Commons

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Angela Hilmi, Emile Frison – Farmer Protests: The Wrong U-Turn

March 25, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Farmers and the environment do not have divergent interests, quite the opposite. What European farmers don’t have any interest in is EU agricultural policies which impoverish them. Angela Hilmi is a panel expert with IPES-Food […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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