Editor's Note: Actually, Col. Muammar Qadaffi discovered and developed what these scientists are talking about a long time before. "The Great Man-Made River Project" (GMMRP) was conceived in the 1960s and built in the 80s. Col. Qadaffi made Libya self-sufficient in food and clean water. Buried underground deep in the... » read this article

After listing a litany of major crises facing America, like the rise in unemployment and homelessness, predatory lending practices and the rapid increase in student debt and home foreclosures, forty-seven million people without health insurance and adequate healthcare while the government continues to fund tax-breaks for corporations and the wealthy,... » read this article

What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days? Would you give that person some food? Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the... » read this article

How to control global food commodity trading Financial speculators invested in food futures even before the great crash of 2008, driving up food prices to dangerous levels. This can and must be stopped. The asphalt road was straight and monotonous. Baobab trees passed one after the other, and the earth... » read this article

Editor's Commentary: Many Canadians like to pretend that we don't really have a problem with natives, they have a problem with us. But this article hits the nail squarely on the head - Canada has mistreated its native population since white people first arrived here (even if you leave aside... » read this article

New report calls for sweeping agricultural reform Source: Real News... » read this article

"Every five seconds, a child under 10 dies of hunger.  – Thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath. – One billion people are permanently and severely malnourished and the situation is becoming increasingly catastrophic." (Jean Ziegler)   In his latest book “Mass Destruction – the... » read this article

Editorial comment: It's NOT CAPITALISM that's the source of our high standard of living, says Michael Parenti in this fabulous video from 2007. Time to drag it out once again and then again and again. The Capitalists have done EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to stop the good life from spreading... » read this article

Editorial comment: "The right to food is a human right. It protects the right of all human beings to live in dignity, free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. The right to food is not about charity, but about ensuring that all people have the capacity to feed themselves in... » read this article

Interview with Jean Ziegler by Gilles Toussaint: Introduction and translation by Siv O'Neall Introduction The victims are the poor, the former subsistence farmers in Africa who have been deprived of their land and whose countries now have to import food at exorbitant prices, due to the speculation in agricultural commodities... » read this article

Editor's Note: Frances Moore Lappé's essay below kicks off our forum on the food movement. Raj Patel, Vandana Shiva, Eric Schlosser, and Michael Pollan have contributed replies. For years I’ve been asked, “Since you wrote Diet for a Small Planet in 1971, have things gotten better or worse?” Hoping I don’t... » read this article

South Sudan: Another Kitchen-Garden? Its was expected; nevertheless, the announcement that agricultural development will be among the top cooperation priorities between Israel and South Sudan has raised fresh, deep fears in Cairo and Khartoum that intensive farming techniques and dams construction will end up depriving Sudan and Egypt from a... » read this article

This 3-part series of interviews with Dr. Vandana Shiva about the future of food is one of the most contentious, revolutionary, profound, and important discussions of any, we have had to date on Food News. This is more than about the safety of biotechnology; its about the ability of all... » read this article

National Call for Solidarity with the British Uprising PROTEST POLICE TERROR IN LONDON We urge you to help organize protests at British consulates, BBC News offices and other sites in cities across North America. Endorse and circulate this call of action in solidarity with the British uprisings We call on... » read this article

Editor's Note: Axis of Logic Columnist Siv O'Neall urged us to publish this film documentary. After viewing it, we entreat all Axis of Logic Readers to watch this inspirational and informative film by Jamie Doran. It reveals how the ingenuity and selfless work of people in extreme poverty can bring... » read this article

Editor's Note: The corporate media call the poor youth who have been striking back in England "looters, rioters and criminals". For decades, the same media has been telling them they should have all those things in the shop windows they see in television ads and shop windows every day when they can barely feed their... » read this article

Sukant Chandan gets it right - pointing his finger directly at Cameron.  The British Prime Minister has vowed that rioters will pay for what they've done, as he addressed Parliament in the wake of clashes that engulfed the country. What started as a peaceful protest against police shooting a man in... » read this article

The first priority must be to restore calm and peace to Tottenham. This is vital for the safety and wellbeing of all Londoners. As Tottenham's Labour MP David Lammy has also said, justice can only follow a thorough investigation of the facts, but to understand those facts, we must have... » read this article

The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory. The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by... » read this article

HUMAN WRONGS WATCH Military expenditure amounted to 1630 billion dollars in 2010, i.e, 236 dollars per person in the world. Meanwhile, UN asks for 16 dollars to save each one of the over two million children needing urgent life-saving actions if they are to survive in drought-affected countries in the... » read this article