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1 Sep 2009 6 minute read

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Everything is a world market

Charlie Parker operates Charlie Bee Honey near Niagara Falls, Ontario. He reflects on his 50 years as a beekeeper.

6 Jul 2009 4 minute read

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Food fights

Government purchases of local or sustainable food is much talked about, but it’s hard to name a handful of places where it’s...

21 Apr 2009 5 minute read

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Less means more

As new research on low-input farming gains ground, the merging of farm, food, health and environment concerns will become the...

The really ugly face of capitalism

21 Jan 2009 2 minute read

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The really ugly face of capitalism

With rich countries and
corporations buying up our land, we are witnessing a new scramble for Africa.

2 Dec 2008 4 minute read

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Selling out the farm

*Ray Burley* is caught in the cost/price squeeze.

2 Dec 2008 6 minute read

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Fusion time

A new way not only to cook but to organize the whole food economy – *Wayne Roberts* stirs the pot.

24 Nov 2008 5 minute read

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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...

19 Nov 2008 7 minute read

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The Solution That Wasn't

Lorena Luo in Beijing debunks the idea of a New Green Revolution.

18 Nov 2008 10 minute read

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Rice under threat

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

6 Aug 2008 2 minute read

This article is almost 15 years old.

Wonder Women

Women who are doing it for themselves...

Right now the Radio New Internationalist team are revisiting some of the...

Feast and famine

26 Dec 2007 2 minute read

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Feast and famine

With the Christmas parties and New Year feasting that's featuring in many millions of homes this week, the Radio New...

14 Sep 2007 2 minute read

This article is almost 16 years old.

The Hunger

This program hits the airwaves at the start of Ramadan - the most significant month of the Islamic year: a month in which...

Radio New Internationalist - Cotton Pickin'

19 Apr 2007 1 minute read

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Radio New Internationalist - Cotton Pickin'

Cotton pickin’

Fresh from an assignment in India, New Internationalist co-editor Richard Swift...

Radio New Internationalist - Peace of the action

6 Apr 2007 1 minute read

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Radio New Internationalist - Peace of the action

Peace of the action

Protecting a human rights campaigner as he lays bare the connections between a mayor and...

26 Jan 2007 2 minute read

This article is more than 16 years old.

Permaculture

For a while now, when asked about the NI magazine topic I’ll be
tackling next, I’ve had to say: ‘permaculture.’...

No land for Zimbabwe’s women

1 Dec 2005 1 minute read

This article is more than 17 years old.

No land for Zimbabwe’s women

Even though 86 per cent of women in Zimbabwe’s ‘communal lands’ and rural areas depend on agriculture for their...

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