Environment
Food and farming
From the world’s powerful agribusiness lobbies to the farmers on the frontlines of climate change, we consider the contemporary challenges of food and farming. Amid water shortages, global conflicts and trade politics, millions of people are living hungry. We focus our coverage on the complex causes and impacts of food insecurity to shine light on those living in scarcity.
In Venezuela's difficult times the grassroots are stronger
The time has come for rural communities to play an important role in the country, reports Tamara Pearson.
Beware Cowspiracy – and the spread of the vegan virus
Alison Homewood on the doc that’s turning people vegan in droves.
Total control: is Monsanto unstoppable?
Monsanto has a mission. But where will it lead the rest of us? Vanessa Baird begins this month's investigation into one of the world's most powerful and hated corporations.
Defending people’s milk in India
A vibrant network of small producers and milk co-operatives is threatened by free trade agreements and liberalized investment policies.
‘Seeds of change’ in the struggle against global hunger
Our global food production system is broken. Kepa Artaraz on resistance to growing corporate domination.
Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers
Ahead of the Rio +20 Earth Summit, Danny Chivers exposes the canny, crafty and plain deceitful claims of corporations co-opting 'sustainability'
Bangalore’s urban agriculture boom
Mari Marcel Thekaekara on how Bangaloreans, fed up with soaring vegetable prices, are growing their own organic food.
Biofuels - the good, the bad and the ugly
From wood to algae, biofuels have been around for years. But they're not necessarily all they're cracked up to be. Danny Chivers has the low-down.
Nestléd in controversy
Nestléd in controversy: the babymilk boycott saved many babies’ lives. But there’s still a way to go…
Seed savers
The world’s seed markets are being gobbled up by ‘life-science’ corporations – but peasant farmers still feed the world. David Ransom reports.
Surviving climate change
In many African societies seed preservation was once an almost sacred duty. Isaiah Esipisu explains why it is becoming vital again.
Will Obama bring 1990s food policy to an end?
‘If the transition to Obama is to become the end of an era as well as the end of an error,’ says food and agriculture activist and author Wayne Roberts, then ‘the legacy of Bill Clinton as well as George Bush will need to be overcome.’
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Conclusion
Chocolate saves the world !
At the end of the trail Richard Swift takes a look at the magic bean to see if it can be persuaded to work better for everyone.
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