What does invesment really mean?
Here are two interesting videos that can help us understand the significance that global investments have for people and governments around the world. The videos aired in India when...
Land Grabbing, Personal Investment, and What We All Can Do: Part 2
In our recent posts, we have been trying to make visible the connection between personal investment and land-grabbing in places like Mozambique, Brazil, Uganda, Ethiopia and others. Those who...
A farmer’s story
It’s often hard to visualize what a land grab looks like, especially when few of us have traveled to the places where they are taking place. This year, La...
Land Grabbing, Personal Investment, and What We All Can Do: Part 1
Source: Each one of us wants some sort of personal security in our lives. We want to know that in the coming years we will be able to...
Learning from China’s Mistakes
Photo Source: Morning Whistle In a recent article published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, a perceptive analysis by the Sociologist Michael Levien looks at the effect on rural...
Denial in an Age of Corporate Responsibility
The news about Wal-Mart’s part in the tragic event that left 112 workers dead in Bangladesh keeps coming out, and every day we learn a bit more about globalization...
Thinking About Crisis: Talking About Solutions
Since 2008, crisis has been constantly among us, and everywhere we go it is being proclaimed by all. Europe, the United States and others are facing continued economic crisis....
Anti-Wal-Mart Escalation: Where are the Farmers?
This week, the world witnessed both another round of well-organized protests against the world’s largest retail giant, Wal-Mart, and a deadly disaster in a Bangladesh factory directly linked to...
Opposing Wal-Mart: Lessons from a history of resistance
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest and most profitable retailer, is searching for new spaces to expand and generate profit. The company already operates around 3,000 stores in the United States,...
Urgent new Report for US consumers: Arsenic in US Rice
Consumer Reports has recently issued an important notice for November 2012. This report notes that practically all rice grown in the US (organic or regular) contains over the EPA...