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Recent Media
In Bid for Food Security, Qatar Sows Seeds Globally
The National, September 2, 2010
Global Food Security and Sovereignty Threatened by Corporate and Government "Land Grabs" in Poor Countries
Democracy Now, August 24,2010
The Land Rush Doesn't Have to End in a Poor Deal for Africans
Guardian, August 16, 2010
Innovations in Access to Land: Land Grab or Agricultural Investment?
The Huffington Post, August 5, 2010
Yesterday's colonised, today's coloniser
The Hindu, August 2, 2010
Selling the Farm
ABC News, July 2010
Ethiopia, Where Food Aid Sustains Hunger
Ethiomedia, July 23, 2010
G8 Hunger Aid Insufficient, Report Warns
World Watch, July 12, 2010
Tackling the Global Food Crisis: A Mission Unaccomplished
Common Dreams, July 8, 2010
World Bank Work on Land Supports "a New Form of Colonialism"
Brettonwoods Project, June 17, 2010
La Banque mondiale accusée de favoriser l’accaparement des terres africaines par des groupes étrangers
May 25, 2010
The World Bank in the Hot Seat Over Land Grabbing
Common Dreams, May 7,2010
Sierra Leone: Protecting Investors, but What About the People? - Dissecting the Contradictions of Agricultural Investment
African Crisis, May 6, 2010
Commercialization and Land Grabbing in the Struggling Agricultural Sector
The Reporter, May 1, 2010
World Bank Promotes Land Grab
Ethioquest, April 28, 2010
Call for Ending All Forms of Land Grabbing
The Turkish Weekly, April 28, 2010
Foreign Farming in Ethiopia
VOA Horn of Africa Service, March, 2010
Activists, Researchers Raise Alarm on Africa’s Land Grab
Voice of America, January 28, 2010
Un Mouvement Spéculatif Mondial : Ruée Sur Les Terres Africaines
Le Monde Diplomatique, January 8, 2010
Events
Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Forum
San Francisco, CA, June 14, 2010
New Deal or No Deal Rally
San Francisco, CA, June 14, 2010
Social Justice Forum--Montclair Presbyterian Church
Oakland, CA, June 4, 2010
Oxfam Briefing: Biotechnology and Agricultural Development--Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-Poor Farmers
Washington, DC, March 18, 2010
Pacific Northwest Global Donors Conference, Pathways for Strategic Giving
Seattle, March 19-20, 2010
Diet for a Hot Planet: A Book Talk and Reception with Anna Lappe
San Francisco, April 10, 2010
FELLOWS
Korea; Human Rights; Trade and Globalization; Militarism; Philanthropy
Immigration Policy and Rights of Migrant Workers; Free Trade Agreements; Worker Rights; Farm Workers
Areas of Expertise Church-supported agriculture projects; global food crisis; community gardens; biointensive agriculture; agrarian theology; globalization and indigenous resistence; social justice and local food systems. Elizabeth Bravo
Areas of Expertise Agriculture; Biosafety; Biodiversity; Genetic Engineering
Biosafety; Genetic Engineering; UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; Sustainable Agriculture; Green Revolution Areas of Expertise Writer, educator, and social justice activist with a focus on international development and ecology.
International food security; International trade in agricultural commodities markets; Latin American agricultural policy; Latin American social movements; Alternative food systems; Women and microfinance Areas of Expertise Marcia is the Senior Scientist and Coordinator of the Sustainable Agriculture Program at Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). She is a lead author of the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). Before joining PANNA in 1996, Ishii-Eiteman worked in Asia and Africa in rural development projects for over 12 years, facilitating government-farmer-NGO collaborations on sustainable agriculture in Southeast Asia, and developing a farmer-based pest management education project in Thailand.
Media; Latin America; Social Movements; Science and Technology Anna Lappé
Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, a good food activist, and a mom. A founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund, her latest book is Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (Bloomsbury). Anna is also the co-author of Hope's Edge, with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, and Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen with Bryant Terry. She can be seen on the PBS series, The Endless Feast, in Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet, and in other film and TV programming on food and sustainability. An active board member of Rainforest Action Network, Anna has been named one of Time's "eco" Who's Who and has been featured in The New York Times, Rachael Ray Everyday, O Magazine, Food & Wine, and Body & Soul, among many others. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and daughter.
Frederic Mousseau
Frederic Mousseau, a Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute, is an internationally renowned food security consultant who works with international relief agencies including Action Against Hunger, Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam International.
Political and social situation in Asia Pacific and Oceania; human rights, colonialism and post-colonialism in Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia; impact of global warming on Pacific Island Nations.
Areas of Expertise Agricultual Biotechnology; Biopharmaceuticals; Bioethics; Urban Ecology; Environmental Health Justice; Community Organizing and the World Wide Web; New York City's Built Environment
Sustainable Food Systems; Local Food Systems; Localization; Globalization of Food and Farming; California Agriculture; Facilitation and Consensus-Building; Systems Thinking
Migration, Migrant Rights, Asia/Southeast Asia, Trade & Migration, Global Trade Areas of Expertise Arts Organizing; Nonviolent Direct Action Training and Mobilization; Organizing and People Power Strategy. |
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