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  1. Altered Genes, Twisted Truth 
    How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
  2. Beyond Beef
    The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    By consuming thousands of acres of North American grain, "cattle production and beef consumption now rank among the gravest threats to the future well-being of the Earth".
  3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
  4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  6. Canadian News Synthesis Project - September 1974
    Volume II Number 9

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
  7. Canned Dreams
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    A simple can of ravioli propels this spectacular 30,000-kilometre, eight-country journey through all phases of food production and the far flung sources of international ingredients.
  8. Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world.
  9. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  10. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  11. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  12. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  13. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  14. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  15. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  17. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
  18. Connexions Library: Food Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
  19. Cultivating Famine: The World Food Crisis
    Resource Type: Slide Show
    First Published: 1975
    A look at the historical and structural causes of the wold food crises and their most commonly advocated solutions.
  20. Development Education Viewpoints
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Educational tools focused on worldwide underdevelopment in a Canadian context.
  21. Edible Action
    Food Activism and Alternative Economics

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  22. The End of Food: The coming Crisis in the World Food Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    Paul Robert's in his book The End of Food scrutinizes the food industry, documenting our eating patterns, the global economy which supports it and the ethics behind it. He maintains that the quanttity and quallity of food that we take for granted in the West can't last much longer. The dream of plenty is in fact a nithmare as it denies the nature of food as seasonal, squashable and unpredictable and in the long run unsustainable and destructive. He advances the theory that food production is run by monopolistic companies interested in the suppression of individuality and free choice.
  23. Farmageddon
    The True Cost of Cheap Meat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    An investigation and implication of the global industrial farming industry.
  24. Fast Food Nation
    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    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.
  25. Food Justice: Monsanto, Factory Farming, And Beyond
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    It starts with alternative vision: While the dominant hierarchy drowns in its own hypocrisy, fear, and greed let’s use our energy and passion to create -- occupy -- a whole new cultural model.
  26. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
  27. The Food Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    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.
  28. The Future of Food
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2004
    Explores the radical changes in our diet and our food in the last half century.
  29. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
  30. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    A series of article regarding the Ten Days for World Development conference focused on food.
  31. GM crops: Hunger as the key to world domination
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Weapons and energy resources are apparently insufficient for total control over the world's nations, power-hungry globalists like David Rockefeller have come up with the idea of using people's daily need for food as a means to achieve global dominance.
  32. International Forum on Globalization
    Resource Type: Website
    An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
  33. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
  34. Marx as a Food Theorist 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
  35. Monsanto: Contamination By All Means Necessary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price.
  36. On Hunger and Capitalism
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    On September 11, 2001, approximately 35,000 of our brothers and sisters died from what is perhaps the worst possible cause of death — starvation. A decade after the 1996 World Food Summit set the goal of cutting the rate of hunger in the world by half, today approximately 854 million people are still starving, which is a great increase in comparison to the 842 million in the year 2000.
  37. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
  38. People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina Schiavoni
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics.
  39. The People's Food Commission, Press Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
  40. Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
  41. The Politics of Food and Poverty
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
  42. Quotes about Food
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  43. So Shall We Reap
    What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food System -- And How to Fix It

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble.
    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.
  44. Stuffed and Starved
    Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2010
    This investigation into the global food market postulates that the current state of population health, where one billion people are overweight and one billion people are starving exemplifies the disequilibrium resulting from the liberalization of agriculture in the developing world by the forces of globalization and the policies of the IMF and World Bank.
  45. The Supermarket Tour: A handbook for education and action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    The Supermarket Tour manual is an attempt to provide the first step in the development of an understanding of the food problem.
  46. Ten Days for World Development Hunger Package
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  47. The Town That Food Saved 
    How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    An account of how cooperative agricultural enterprises are revitalizing the economy of a town in Vermont.
  48. Unnatural Harvest
    How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  49. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996 
    The Right to Produce and Access Land

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Food is a basic human right. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.
  50. Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 2001
    Our World is Not for Sale. Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
  51. What are we eating?
    Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
  52. When Did We See You Hungry?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    An educational leader kit designed to focus the theme of food.
  53. When Food Kills
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003

Experts on ProblŠmes Alimentaires in the Sources Directory

  1. Common Ground Magazine
  2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  3. International Fund for Agricultural Development
  4. World Bank

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