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Showing videos filed under: global food crisis
Mark Bittman: the Hidden Power and Politics of Planting
March 30, 2011“It’s a matter of political will and a moral question—do you see the rest of the world as your brothers and sisters or not?”Phyllis Bennis, Mark Bittman, and South Dakota's Anti-Choice Legislation
March 29, 2011“I wonder if those same people who asked for the intervention, when they ask for the intervention to end, will we listen to them?" asks GRITtv foreign affairs correspondent and author Phyllis Bennis. Who will the leadership that so swiftly made the decision to commit troops to Libya answer to? Phyllis joins us via Skype to discuss the continued presence of U.S. troops in the Middle East.Biofuel and the World Food Crisis
July 11, 2008It's not a food crisis, it's a food price crisis - and solutions exist. But sustainable agriculture requires sustainable economic policies; Yifat Susskind of MADRE, Anna Lappe of the Small Planet Institute, Steven Levy of the National Biodiesel Board and Sprague Energy, and Joel Berg, a former food security expert at the USDA, lay out the complicated picture. The discussion here is rich. It's amazing what can happen when the conversation's not underwritten by Archer Daniels Midland, the ubiquitous agri-business media sponsor.July 10, 2008: Food, Film and FISA
July 10, 2008It's not a food crisis, it's a food price crisis and solutions exist, but sustainable agriculture requires sustainable economic policies.
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