Haroon's devlog

This  is without doubt the best explanation of the history, structure and impact of successive US Farm Bills that I have seen.  Clear, acce...

Mel's Prime Beef are eight three-minute clips on what is wrong with Ontario's food system.  Episode 6 is typical -- it goes for the...

For years I have been telling students that the world population is going to peak at 10 billion around 2050. Last year, following revised ...

Over the last few months I have heard several people that I respect -- both activists and academics -- claim that the sum total of employm...

Global Witness has produced an excellent report on collusion between Vietnamese state-owned enterprises, local government officials and Deut...

An article in the current Watershed Sentinel that draws upon an interview that I gave a few days ago: Land Grabs & the Canadian Co...

This is an absolutely fantastic video on the food system: Go to the website, and you can download school curriculum materials as well.

This is an interesting and thorough review of the ails of the food system, presented in an inclusive and non-confrontational style, by Evan ...

This link is a followup by Oxfam America to a book of photo essays, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluis...

Timur Khudaiberdiev's excellent 2 minute animation on GMOs in Canada's food system.

This RSA animation of a talk by Michael Pollen is an excellent, succinct reason why agriculture has to change. Michael Pollan's Food R...

An excellent new short video on the food system from Oxfam International:

An excellent article that emphasizes the cruelty of the food system: The secret history of your favourite hamburger - Opinion - Al Jazeera...

 The International Land Coalition has created a new website that compiles data about large-scale land deals around the world.  It is quite a...

An excellent short animation from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that shows how so much water is embedded withi...

An excellent, provocative piece by Raj Patel in February's The Atlantic makes a clarion call: abolish the food industry. Abolish the Fo...

Last week I gave an interview to MacLeans.ca on the prospects for cocoa in Ghana. Here is the article: Ghana’s advantage: An agriculture boa...

Food Movements Unite! is a new book edited by Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck. It provides a sector by sector road map for bringing th...

An excellent article on food price volatility by one of my former students. How imaginary demand has made food prices more volatile It is on...

Take the 10 seconds needed to sign this petition. One billion hungry in the world is unacceptable. 1billionhungry.org