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Recent & Selected Articles

  1. This is a small sampling of articles related to education and children in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as agriculture, agriculture/ecology, farming/farm economy, and food.
  1. The Drug Store in American Meat (November 28, 2012)
    Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989.
  2. Corporations profiting out of food crisis (October 21, 2012)
    The small group of food multinationals that monopolise the world food market are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the crisis: the latest food price hikes threaten to drive more people back into hunger.
  3. Deconstructing The Locavore’s Dilemma (July 8, 2012)
    The book 'The Locavore's Dilemma' constructs a straw man argument while ignoring what the locavore movement really has to say.
  4. The false solutions of Rio+20 (June 28, 2012)
    Food production and people's sovereignty in Africa could be seriously compromised by carbon capture projects and the so-called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+) mechanism.
  5. Without Women, No Food Security (March 1, 2012)
    In the countries of the Global South, women are the primary producers of food: the ones in charge of working the earth, maintaining seed stores, harvesting fruit, obtaining water and safeguarding the harvest.
  6. Connexions Archive Case Statement (September 24, 2011)
    Working together to secure a future for the past
  7. Local Harvest for an Urban Landscape (February 11, 2011)
    How do you create a locally harvested food system for a city of 100,000?
  8. Death in a New York Food Sweatshop (February 3, 2011)
    For thousands of recent immigrants, the eastern section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is where you go to find work in food processing and distribution factories that service many of New York City's markets and restaurants. If you've ever eaten a meal in New York, you can be assured that you've consumed food that has been produced and distributed through one of these food companies and those in a few adjacent neighborhoods.
  9. Organic and Beyond (2011)
    Organic is not enough. Organic will be an effective proposal for change only to the extent that it is integrated into the local and global movements that carry on the fight for food sovereignty, climate justice, ecological debt, women's rights and labor organizing; and against enclosures of common goods.
  10. The FDA and Frankenfoods (September 24, 2010)
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent enforcement letters warning food makers that they cannot label their products as free of genetically modified or genetically engineered ingredients.
  11. Connexions Archive seeks a new home (November 18, 2009)
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  12. Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food (October 29, 2009)
    Food sovereignty as defined by Via Campesina is the peoples# right to define their agricultural and food policy, and the right of farmers and peasants to produce food. Worldwide communities are seeking an alternative to a model controlled by Cargill, Monsanto, General Foods, Nestle and Kraft foods. Starved by industrialization and concentration, citizens are now hungry for traditional production methods and diversity in the food system.
  13. The Humble Tuna (October 19, 2009)
    The humble tuna, "the chicken of the sea", is an unfortunate metaphor for all that is dysfunctional about our contemporary, western, capitalist world. The story of the Tuna is the story of our triumphant world, and provides a unified theory of its runaway excess
  14. Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry (October 9, 2009)
    Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
  15. Feedlots and E. Coli (October 9, 2009)
    Improving processing plant inspections is a good idea, but it is only part of the solution. The real solution is minimizing the potential contaminant. Secondly, slow down the processing line so the workers can do their jobs. CDC tells people to wash their hands, their cutting boards and to cook meat thoroughly. Good sound suggestions, but why is the burden of safety inordinately placed on the consumer? Why are the processors allowed to hide behind the #safe handling instructions# and maximize their profits with impunity?
  16. Food Among the Ruins (August 1, 2009)
    Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
  17. Urban Honey (2009)
    In the winter of 2003, three Chicago beekeepers joined forces to create a bee farm on the former Sears-Roebuck property right in the heart of our city. We abut an old railroad embankment wall with both prairie remnant and concrete in equal amounts.
  18. Global Justice, What We Eat, Who We Are (May 1, 2001)
    Sara Abraham interviews Harriet Friedmann, who has devoted more than two decades to understanding the international politics of food and agriculture and to building local food systems that can be sustainable, polycultural in all senses, and enhancing of democratic, participatory communities.
  19. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996 (1996)
    Food is a basic human rights. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.

Selected Websites and Organizations

  1. This is a small sampling of organizations and websites concerned with education and children in the Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as agriculture, agriculture/ecology, farming/farm economy, and food.

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    Books, Films and Periodicals

    1. This is a small sampling of books related to education and children in the Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library agriculture, agriculture/ecology, farming/farm economy, and food.

    1. The End of Food
      How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food And - What You Can Do About It
      Author: Pawlick, Thomas
    2. Farmageddon
      Food and the Culture of Biotechnolgy
      Author: Kneen, Brewster
    3. Fast Food Nation
      The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
      Author: Schlosser, Eric
      According to Schlosser, fast food has hastened the malling of the American landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad.
    4. The Food Wars
      Author: Bello,Walden
      Walden Bello presents an analysis of the various causes of hikes in global food prices and their effects on poverty in the countries of the global South.
    5. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
      Author: Steel, Carolyn
      Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
    6. The Illustrated Book of Food Plants
      A guide to the fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices of the world
      Author: Masefield, G.B., Wallis, M., Harrison, S.G., Nicholson, B.E.
    7. The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food
      Author: Roberts, Wayne
      A world tour of food—from industrialized production and consumption to community food security.
    8. Real Food For A Change
      Bringing Nature, Joy and Justice to the Table
      Author: Roberts, Wayne; McRae, Rod; and Stahlbrand, Lori
      The three authors of this book argue that people need to avoid Industrial food-making. Instead, people in Canada must turn to organic farming to produce their own food. It is good for economy and good for one's health.
    9. So Shall We Reap
      Author: Tudge, Colin
      An expose on the fallout of the present drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost, as health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land, and poor nations are forced to export their goods in an unsympathetic marketplace.
    10. Stolen Harvest
      The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
      Author: Shiva, Vandana
      The author, an eco-feminist and environmentalist, documents the effects of Globalization and Manufactured Foods on small farmers, the environment, and the food we eat.
    11. Sugar The sugar trap
      New Internationalist December 2003
      A look into sugar as a consumer product and its corporate globalization. Discusses trade and business of sugar, its history with slavery as well as its effects on the body.
    12. The Town That Food Saved
      How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
      Author: Hewitt, Ben
      An account of how cooperative agricultural enterprises are revitalizing the economy of a town in Vermont.
    13. The Unnatural History of the Sea
      Author: Roberts, Callum
      A history of the commercial fishery and an update on its precarious and untenable siituation. The age old delusion that the sea is an inexhaustible resource has resulted in a fishing arms race that could spell extinction for some species.


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