Mozambican smallholders thought they could do a deal with agribusiness. Hazel Healy reports on how transnational OLAM treated its so-called partners.
Mozambican smallholders thought they could do a deal with agribusiness. Hazel Healy reports on how transnational OLAM treated its so-called partners.
Communities are scrambling to protect their lands from tree plantations multiplying in Mozambique’s northern highlands. Hazel Healy reports.
A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.
Communities bear witness to damages inflicted by mining giants and target annual meetings in London.
Hazel Healy speaks to free software’s moral compass about Anonymous, licensing and digital freedoms.
New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy meets the free software hackers protecting your bits from cybersnooping governments and marketers.
Computers are a growing part of our lives but do they give us more freedom or reduce our civil liberties?
Outspoken scholar Norman Finkelstein speaks to Hazel Healy about his latest book Knowing Too Much.
The battle for hearts and minds is in full swing as the clock ticks down on a mass anti-GM action planned for later this month.
Families are slowly melting away from the Bay of Bengal coastline as habitats degrade. Hazel Healy speaks to new arrivals on the edge of destitution in Dhaka.
New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy travelled there to find out how people are adapting to a warming world.
Get busy with it! Groups and campaigns fighting against global warming and supporting the poorest nations to adapt; to accompany Issue 451 of the April New Internationalist Adapt or die: How Bangladesh is facing up to climate change.
New Internationalist editor Hazel Healy talks to OccupyLSX about food speculation and how the banks are causing millions to go hungry.
Maize and wheat are hot assets, right up there with gold. But since investors piled into food markets, the poorest can no longer afford to eat. Hazel Healy gets to grips with the commodity speculators.
Hazel Healy considers moves to get food out of financiers’ portfolios, as regulators and governments decide on rules to limit food speculation.
Gemma Galdon gives a quick introduction to the Spanish movement that sparked a worldwide revolt against the global financial system.
It’s time to get blogging about food…

Hazel Healy became a co-editor at New Internationalist in 2011. She began her working life as a researcher with Colombian feminists in Medellin, coaxed peas and beans out of the soils of East Manchester with kids, and went on to do advocacy work with refugees from the Congo, Ethiopia and Sudan.
She took up journalism full time in 2007, co-founding online investigative paper Manchester Mule and going on to cover everything from campaigns by Senegalese migrant organizers in Madrid to the trials of Dominican gardeners in New York.
Since joining New Internationalist she has written on food speculation, climate adaptation and digital freedom, and keeps a close eye all things migratory. She also edits the Agenda section of the magazine.
Her work has also been featured in The LA Times, by La Agencia EFE and the Women’s Studies Review.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.
As a young student is injured for wearing the ‘wrong’ clothes, Mari Marcel Thekeakara says that women will fight on against violence.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara’s home is on the edge of a wildlife sanctuary, which is a pleasure and a pain, as she explains.