UN Agencies appeal for swift, coordinated action 4 September 2012, Rome - Following is a joint statement on international food prices from the three Rome-based UN Agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP):
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="288"] Photo www.michaelbenanav.com/[/caption] I am very happy to be publishing a new editorial by the Human Rights Director of FIAN, Rolf Künnemann. In this piece, Künnermann applies a...
[caption id="attachment_876" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thanks to Jeroen Candel @JeroenWUR for sending this along[/caption] The majority of my research at the moment is focused on food security policy and discourses of...
It's a trend: another book summary. This time, I am sharing some tidbits that I have taken from Jamie Peck's 2010 book "Constructions of Neoliberal Reason". Full refernce: Peck, J. 2010....
This is not really a book review but rather a summary of some of the key points I have taken from Partha Chatterjee's 2004 book "The politics of the...
I am currently in Edinburgh (brrrrr after the 40º temperatures in Rome) at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society: "Security of Geography /Geography of Security". I will be...
The Working Group consultation on the Global Strategic Framework. Sections 1-5 were adopted. Section 6 on policy gaps was pushed to a morning meeting on the 19th of July at the...
This relates to the consultations on the GSF that took place yesterday (June 27) at FAO in Rome. If you have not been following the CFS or the GSF, this...
Jennifer Clapp and C. Stuart Clark, two top Canadian thinkers on food policy issues have co-written a very good blog post for Triple Crisis about the new Food Assistance Convention. The article...
I am giving the second part of the lecture on global food security governnace today, with a focus on the Committee on World Food Security, the Civil Society Mechanism and...
