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Published by the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture in 2006, this 23 page briefly outlines the problems with the industrialization and globalization of food production. It then goes on to set out a practical vision, ideas and program towards a more socially and ecologically sustainable food and agriculture system.  The Commission includes some of the top food security experts from around the world. More information on the Commission and other language versions of the document can be found here:http://www.arsia.toscana.it/petizione/default.aspx

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cibo_ing.pdf

Briefing paper by GRAIN, March 2009(11 pages). From GRAIN: "In this paper we look at how the US’s agricultural reconstruction work in Afghanistan and Iraq not only gives easy entry to US agribusiness and pushes neoliberal policies, something that has always been a primary function of US development assistance, but is also an intrinsic part of the US military campaign in these countries and the surrounding regions."
 

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Soils_of_War.pdf

Chapter 1 of Global Development of Organic Agriculture: Challenges and Promises, by Marie Trydeman Knudsen (Danish Research Centre for Organic Food and Farming - DARCOF), Niels Halberg, Jørgen E. Olesen, John Byrne, Venkatesh Iyer and Noah Toly, 2005 (48 pages).
 

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global_trends_ag-food.pdf

By Colin Hines. International Institute for Environment and Development (iied), London, 2003 (79 pages).

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GlobaltoLocal_Hines.pdf

Edited book based on the proceedings of an international workshop held at Yale University in 2004, titled Food Sovereignty, Conservation, and Social Movements for Sustainable Agriculture in the Americas. (222 pages) Contains feature articles, panel summaries, breakout session reports and transcripts of interviews with leaders in the movement. Edited by Avery Cohn, Jonathan Cook, Margarita Fernández, Rebecca Reider, and Corrina Steward. A collaborative project of the International Institute for

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Agroecology_and_the_Struggle_for_FS_in_the_Americas.pdf

Final conference report by Dawn Morrison, Sept 2006(26 pages)

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IFSC_2006_Final_Report.pdf

Report by Grassroots International & Food and Water Watch, 2008 (24 pages).

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Grassroots_International_report_Towards-Green-Food-System.pdf

Journal article by Robert T. Lackey, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, published in Fisheries 30(3):30-32 (2005) (8 pages)
 

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BCFSN_SalmonEconomicGrowth2005.pdf

Short video featuring men and women from around the world speaking about multilateral agreements, the WTO, agricultural subsidies, unfair trade, globalization, hunger, corporate power, and the international movement for food sovereignty, and the right to food (both to eat and to produce) (7:25 min).