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Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Nadia Malyanah Azman 17/06/25
Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with almost 300 million people now threatened by starvation. Why hunger ? World food production has increased almost fourfold since 1960. FAO (...)
Malnutrition Not Due to Cash Poverty Alone
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 27/03/25
The World Bank set its US ‘dollar-a-day’ poverty line using its 1990 data. Despite many doubts and criticisms, its poverty numbers fell until the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. Cash measures The Bank claimed credit for reducing poverty in the (...)
Food Systems Worsen Diets, Health
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 22/01/25
Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but still spreading malnutrition and ill health. Poor diets worsen non-communicable diseases (NCDs), now costing over eight trillion dollars yearly ! Unhealthy food systems A (...)
New Approaches Urgently Needed to Tackle Resurgent Social Crises
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 05/12/24
Despite uneven economic recovery since the pandemic, poverty, inequality, and food insecurity continue to worsen, including in the Asia-Pacific, which used to fare better than the rest of the South. Despite uneven economic recovery since the (...)
Du Nigeria à la Zambie, l’insécurité alimentaire sur toutes les bouches
Jean-Christophe Servant 27/06/24
La faim est en recrudescence à la table des pays africains en proie à un conflit, mais aussi à celle de nations qui pensaient s’en être protégées. Cette crise, la plus grave en une décennie, reste encore trop largement ignorée des opinions publiques (...)
Lessons from the Indian Farmers’ Movement
Amod Shah, Katie Sandwel 01/06/23
Emerging solidarities in the Kisan Andolan This issue brief explores the frameworks and processes of alliance formation that contributed to the remarkable success of the Kisan Andolan. Introduction Large protests by Indian farmers in 2020 and (...)
Lula en Chine - Quand climat et agrobusiness font bon ménage
François Polet 16/05/23
La visite de Lula en Chine a été l’occasion pour les deux pays d’officialiser leur coopération en matière climatique. La déclaration signée à cet effet réaffirme néanmoins l’importance du développement socioéconomique et place l’essentiel des (...)
Africa : The labor of land
Rama Salla Dieng 26/12/22
In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa. Contemporary land grabs and agricultural investments have generated huge attention. The transformations in land tenure, production (...)
Yemeni children starve to death amid endless war
26/10/22
The shocking images of around 2.2 million children under the age of 5 are not well fed. More than half a million are severely malnourished. More than a million pregnant or lactating women suffered from severe malnutrition this year. Every 10 (...)
Creación de fondos : una estrategia campesina ante shocks que se (...)
René Mendoza Vidaurre 27/07/22
Las cosas no solo están interconectadas, están incrustadas y son las mismas realidades que se expresan de diferentes maneras. En este artículo mostramos variables que, conectadas, nos alertan de disrupciones, shocks, que tienden a recrudecer hechos (...)