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Workshop on Food, Livelihoods and Climate Change in the Mekong Region
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:18
Focus on the Global South together with the Foundation for Ecological Recovery/TERRA, World Rainforest Movement (WRM), International Rivers, Bank Information Centre and the Thai Working Group on Climate (TWGC), held a workshop titled Food, Livelihoods and Climate Change in the Mekong Region from August 9-11, 2010. The workshop was held at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and attended by over 50 representatives of local networks and civil society organizations from Myanmar, the Lao PDR,...
Is Congress worth running for?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 08:54
By Akbayan! Representative Walden Bello
from Inquirer.net
Is Congress worth running for?
As someone that comes from civil society, I am often asked this question.
I do not blame people for being so cynical. After a year in the institution, I cannot deny that all they have heard about the House of Representatives is true.
Chronic Absenteeism and other Foibles
The problem goes beyond the chronic absenteeism that forces the House leadership, for lack of a quorum, to resort to various subterfuges to...
Stop land grabbing now!
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 21:25
Say NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank
State and private investors, from Citadel Capital to Goldman Sachs, are leasing or buying up tens of millions of hectares of farmlands in Asia, Africa and Latin America for food and fuel production. This land grabbing is a serious threat to the food sovereignty of our peoples and the right to food of our rural communities. In response to this new wave of land grabbing, the World Bank (WB) is promoting a set of...
The global food price crisis
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 20:50
by Walden Bello
Originally posted by Women in Action and Pambazuka News
Perhaps the most influential orthodox view on the causes, dynamics, and solution to the food price crisis was provided by Oxford University economist Paul Collier in an article that came out in Foreign Affairs[1] Collier, author of the controversial The Bottom Billion[2], asserted that the food price crisis stemmed from the increased demand for food in Asia, brought on by prosperity that was not matched on the supply side owing to...
Focus on the Philippines June 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009 - 14:04
DEAR READERS,
This issue, Focus on the Philippines zooms in on key developments in
Congress, specifically Cha-cha and CARPER, which Rep. Walden Bello
calls “two of the most controversial pieces of legislation this
decade.” On Charter Change and Congress, FOP June includes ‘Politics
failed our Constitution’, the Focus on the Global South Philippines
position on this recent move in the House and Charter Change, which
also identifies progressive provisions in the constitution that should
be preserved. In ‘...
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