(Originally published by Vice)
For years, farmers have said free trade policies have harmed them. Will the world finally start listening?
Read moreBig Ag Is Sabotaging Progress on Climate Change
(Originally published on Wired)
Climate experts have sounded yet another dire alarm, this time aimed straight at our stomachs. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, on “Climate Change and Land,” warns that meeting the challenges of our climate crisis requires urgent changes in our food systems.
Read moreWorld Hunger Is on the Rise
(Originally published on Heated)
For the third straight year, U.N. agencies have documented rising levels of severe hunger in the world, affecting 820 million people. More than 2 billion suffer “moderate or severe” food insecurity.
Read moreEating tomorrow: A conversation with Timothy Wise →
(Originally published by Leah Douglas, Fern AG)
For decades, conversations about global agricultural production have revolved around one question: How do we feed the world? Those conversations have often been driven by philanthropies, governments, and companies that share an interest in the industrialization of agriculture.
Read moreFarming First: A Recipe to Feed a Crowded World →
(Originally published by Heated)
Policymakers from Mexico to Malawi, India to Mozambique, routinely advocated large-scale, capital-intensive agricultural projects as the solution to widespread hunger and low agricultural productivity, oblivious to the reality that such initiatives generally displace more farmers than they employ.
Read moreLa batalla por la alimentación del futuro →
(Originally published by Alejandro Nadal, La Jornada)
Cómo vamos a asegurar la alimentación de una población de 8 mil 500 millones de personas para 2030?
Read moreTimothy A. Wise dissects the dangers of agribusiness →
(Originally published by Emmanuel Jones, Quaker Campus)
Many governmental agricultural initiatives place corporate profits over the needs and well-being of the farming communities most directly impacted by them. Wise saw this trend amidst the 2007 – 2008 global food price crisis.
Read moreA new page on sustainable development, the Green Revolution, and globalization →
(Originally published by Madison Lotenschtein, The Daily Iowan)
Prairie Lights welcomes author Timothy Wise to read from his book, "Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food".
Read moreThe battle for the future of food: A Q&A with author Timothy Wise →
(Originally published by Eric Muňoz, Oxfam)
What do you get when rising hunger, devastating droughts and floods, and an industrial agricultural system run amok come together?
Read moreThe Revolt Against Big Food →
(Originally published by Jyati Ghosh, Project Syndicate)
Today’s food problem is not absolute scarcity. It is that food is so unequally distributed and irrationally consumed that the world’s most deprived people die or suffer from cognitive impairment because of undernutrition, while others face death or disease because of obesity.
Read moreHow Farm Policy and Big Ag Impact Farmers in the U.S. and Abroad →
(Originally published by Eva Perroni, Civil Eats)
From remote villages in Malawi, Mexico, and India to ethanol refineries and industrial hog factories in the American heartland, Tim Wise has spent great deal of the last several years thinking about the big picture of food and farming.
Read moreEating Today And Tomorrow →
(Originally published by Nnimmo Bassey, Leadership)
A book that should be a required read for public policy makers related to seeds, farming and food as well as farmers and consumers has just been published.
Read moreHow to Feed the World →
(Originally published by Taylor McNeil, Tufts Now)
Put the focus on small-scale farmers using eco-friendly agriculture, argues a new book by a Tufts researcher
Read moreNY Book Launch: Eating Tomorrow →
(Originally published by Emma Zimmerman, Small Planet)
On February 6, 2019 some 200 students, faculty, activists, and community members crowded into Tishman Auditorium at The New School in New York City to hear Vandana Shiva, Mark Bittman, and author Timothy A. Wise discuss the battle for the future of food.
Read moreIllusions Of Power And Ecological Corruption →
(Originally published by Nnimmo Bassey, Leadership)
The reality of rampant unemployment and underemployment creates a situation where many make decisions based on what they believe would enhance their chance of survival. If this is the basis for decision making of the majority of citizens in any community or nation, the chance of catering to their best interest is highly diminished.
Read moreStart National Reading Month With 21 Food and Ag Reads →
(Originally published by Katherine Walla, Food Tank)
Food Tank is highlighting 21 books on food, agriculture, and environment to inspire readers of all ages to get in on the National Reading Month celebrations
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