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*Danny Chivers* surveys the options for the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, and asks if they can deliver climate justice.…

The Pesticide Action Network reports from Penang on the threat to China's staple food.…

A history of the eternal fate of taxation: to be the abused or abusive means towards noble or ignoble ends, never quite able to escape its association with extortion and war.…

The spiraling world food grains crisis has been a long time coming.There have been warnings aplenty, but they didn't really grab theheadlines…

The excellent Oakland Institute in California has produced this useful briefing which sheds a little more light on what's really going on.…

Rebels in the Niger Delta have taken up arms – Ike Oguine explains what lies behind their resistance.…

India’s farmers have been killing themselves by the thousands…

Despite the underwhelming emphasison climate change at the World Social Forum, there were a fewinteresting sessions and issues worth noting, many of which might nothave been labeled as strictly ‘climate change’ sessions.One in particular was a workshop on biofuels, organized by the Global Forest Coalition.…

Radio New Internationalist…

*Chris Brazier* is reunited not only with the village of Sabtenga, in Burkina Faso, but also with the remarkable Mariama Gamené.…