Food

Global Food Crisis

The aim of this project is to assemble resources for thinking through the global food crisis.

Project group members are urged to develop materials for this site including annotated links. This material can be uploaded directly if you are happy to negotiate Wiki (approach the webmistress for direct access) or alternatively can be emailed to d.legge[at]latrobe.edu.au for uploading.

Please feel free to suggest how we might improve the overall framework of the site.

Current Events

Confronting the global food challenge: finding new approaches to trade and investment that support the right to food When? 24-26 November 2008. Where? Ecumenical Centre / Centre Oecumenique, 150, route de Ferney, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Contact: foodconf@e-alliance.ch

Contents

• Countries (stories about food from different)
• Commodities
• Industries
• Companies
• Technologies
• Energy
• Climate change and food
• Food and health
• Food aid
• Food: directions for change
• Food and trade: WTO
• Australia

Documents and Websites

UN High Level Taskforce (2008) Comprehensive framework for action

Cooke, A.M., et al., Introduction: Agriculture, Trade, and the Global Governance of Food. Globalizations, 2008. 5(2): p. 99 - 106

UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Food First - Institute for Food and Development Policy

Holt-Giménez, E., The world food crisis: what's behind it and what we can do about it. 2008, Food first - Institute for food and development policy (http://www.foodfirst.org/files/pdf/PB%2016%20World%20Food%20Crisis.pdf)