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Combining Social Justice and Sustainability for Food Security
Food, Health and Well-being in British Columbia
Provincial Health Officer's Annual Report for 2005 (174 pages). Note of interest: The PHO recommends mandatory labeling of GE foods. Also comments on intensive livestock operations, aquaculture, and industrial contaminants in food.
- Aboriginal health
- aquaculture
- BSE
- cost of eating
- disease
- food access
- food policy
- food safety
- food-borne illness
- GMOs
- ILOs
- industrial contaminants
- intensive livestock operations
- labeling
- nutrition
- obesity
- pathogens
- poverty
- public health
- safety
- Agriculture & Harvesting
- Food & Health
- Food & the Environment
- Indigenous Food Sovereignty
- Policy Work / Systems Change
Multimedia Publication: Towards food sovereignty: Reclaiming autonomous food systems
Quick Fixes or Real Solutions? World Bank and IMF responses to the global food and fuel crises
A briefing by ActionAid USA, the Bank Information Center and the European Network on Debt and Development, December 2008 (22 pages).
Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
Working document, subtitled, "Commentary on land and rural development policies of the World Bank". Jointly produced by FIAN (Food First Information and Action Network) and La Via Campesina. 12 pages, date of publication unknown.
Protected Areas and Livestock Keepers' Rights
Educational poster explaining the role of pastoralism in protecting animal genetic resources, rural livelihoods, sustainable crop cultivation and wild biodiversity. Cites the adverse effects that have come from banning grazing in protected areas, and advocates the protection of herders' rights.
By Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, Germany (www.pastoralpeoples.org, ilse@pastoralpeoples.org) and Hanwant Singh Rathore, Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, Rajasthan, India (www.lpps.org)
Drynet: a global initiative, giving future to drylands
Drynet's aim is to strengthen civil society networks by giving them access to the knowledge and visibility to influence drylands development. Website includes news, position papers, success stories, publications, inspiring initiatives, and a description of upcoming conferences all over the world related to land use, sustainable agriculture, climate change, water use, natural resource management, rural development, organic animal and plant breeding, energy, food security, and capacity-building.
Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa
Oxfam briefing paper on the effects of climate change on pastoral peoples in East Africa, 2008 (47 pages).
Cost of Eating in Alberta 2008
The Cost of Eating in Alberta 2008
report examined the incomes and
costs of four basic needs (shelter,
food, transportation and childcare) in
six different lower income household
scenarios. Costs were collected in six
Alberta communities. These scenarios
were created to examine the
affordability of basic needs for
household situations known from
national surveys to be at risk of food
insecurity. As expected, the
households depicted would have a
Food First Aboriginal Dialogue Process: Building Capacity Report
Preliminary report by the Victoria-based Inner City Aboriginal Society (ICAS), 2006 (11 pages). The mission of ICAS is to facilitate the voice of a community that is the last vestige of an aboriginal lifestyle that was free, communal and strong, and in doing so, to foster self-reliance, cultural recovery, and healing. ICAS is unique because The membership and Board of Directors of ICAS are or have all been street-involved or homeless.
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