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Introduction   Three-quarters of the world’s 852 million men and women suffering from hunger are found in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their survival. Most of them are landless farmers or have such tiny or unproductive plots of land that they cannot feed their families”. This was the as …

A report for Focus on the Global South by Isabelle Delforge From small farms to fast food chains and supermarkets The fast food retailer Kentucky Fried Chicken requires chickens that weigh exactly two kilograms in order to fit the size of the portions. Some segments of the Japanese market want okra …

Five years after the initial deployment, this report gathers the available information and evidence regarding this claim. It relies on publicly available information provided by US troops themselves who, in writing about their missions for military publications, have gone on record to describe their …

Contents Building Community: The Search for Alternative Regionalism in Southeast Asia 1 Jenina Joy Chavez Neo-liberalism and the Working People of Southeast Asia Rene Ofreneo China and Southeast Asia: Emerging Problems in an Economic Relation Walden Bello Welcome China!: China’s Rise and its Increas …

LEBANON: AGGRESSION AND RESISTANCE Final Report of the International Civil Society and Parliamentary Peace Mission to Lebanon Contents LEBANON: AGGRESSION AND RESISTANCE Final Report of the International Civil Society and Parliamentary Peace Mission to Lebanon Annex 1: Statement and Recommendations …

The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) represents the first attempt at regional integration that is not based primarily on trade liberalization but on a new vision of social welfare and equity. Alternatives are often either theoretical to the point of impracticality, or so micro that sca …

In India it’s not business as usual. Economists claim that India is hurtling along the superhighway of growth and audaciously predict that along with China, Russia and Brazil, it will be one of the giant economic forces in the coming century. The Outlook magazine recently (November 6 2006) carried a …

Food Is Different: Why we must get the WTO out of Agriculture by Peter M. Rosset Why does our global food system give us expensive, unhealthy and bad-tasting food, where we pay more for packaging and long-distance shipping than we do for the food itself?   Why do farmers and peasants from …

Triennial Report 2003-2005  

Occasional Papers 1: Globalisation and Change in Southern Laos By Jonathan Cornford   This book analyzes the development situation in southern Laos. It is therefore of obvious interest to anyone working there. But it deserves a much, much broader readership. The book begins with the observation …