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  • Common Fungicide Adds to Growing List of Pesticides Linked to Gastrointestinal and Microbiome Damage

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  • EPA, USDA and Interior Challenged to Incorporate in All Decisions Impact on Climate Crisis, from Soil to Pesticides

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  • December 2005 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : December 2005 Posted on December 31, 2005 Optimism of the will If there’s one struggle that’s looking on the up at the moment , it’s the fight to get Ashwin Desai’s job back at the Centre for Civil Society where I work . Ashwin’s one of few veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle who has neither self-destructed nor self-enriched . Click here for a fine interview with him in Z Magazine , and here for an excerpt from his excellent We are the Poors The uncompromising honesty of his analysis might explain why , now , he’s being banned from the University of KwaZulu-Natal , as the University refashions itself as a credentialing

  • January 2006 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2006 Posted on January 31, 2006 More Desai Correspondence For those following the Ashwin Desai struggle , some more news , this time from the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.After writing this and having received a message in return to which I do not have access , they have responded by writing this Continue reading More Desai Correspondence” Tweet Posted on January 30, 2006 The Sunday Times Reports Ashwin Desai’s Reinstatement in 2003 More news on Ashwin Desai’s campaign . Turns out that the Sunday Times in 2003 printed an article celebrating Ashwin’s reinstatement at the University of Durban-Westville text-only

  • April 2019 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2019 Posted on April 9, 2019 September 30, 2019 A Green New Deal for Agriculture Here’s a piece run by Jacobin written by Jim Goodman and me , on the history of the New Deal , and how it matters for rural America today . Agriculture policy in the original New Deal sprang from a heady mix of class struggle and uneasy alliances . The Green New Deal will have to stitch together a different coalition that can challenge the dominant mode of agriculture and create a more just food . system Continue reading A Green New Deal for Agriculture” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for

  • October 2018 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2018 Posted on October 8, 2018 The New Columbus Here in the US , it’s Columbus day” , a federally recognized holiday Jason W Moore and I take a dim view of Columbus   We’re sympathetic with the move to rename today Indigenous peoples day but , if that doesn’t suit , we’ve got an alternative suggestion Continue reading The New Columbus” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black

  • August 2018 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2018 Posted on August 27, 2018 Land struggles are God’s way of teaching racists geography and history and current affairs . Here’s a recent article I wrote for The Guardian Continue reading Land struggles are God’s way of teaching racists geography Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food

  • May 2018 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : May 2018 Posted on May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 Chicken , for Christ’s sake Below , an adaptation of part of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things , written with Jason W Moore , published in The Guardian If you’ve read the book , do look out for the post-publication addendum of the story of Oklahoma-based Christian Alcoholics and Addicts in Recovery . CAAIR was set up by chicken executives so that survivors of the opioid epidemic might pray by day and work on the understaffed night-shift at slaughterhouses . Do read the full story , as researched by the Center for Investigative Reporting And , meantime , here’s the excerpt as

  • March 2018 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2018 Posted on March 20, 2018 March 21, 2018 Terrorism for trolls : A note from Austin Hell Broke Loose” . Text from newspaper headline accompanying reports of the Servant Girl Annihilator”, Fort Worth Gazette , 26 December 1885 Continue reading Terrorism for trolls : A note from Austin” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global

  • November 2017 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2017 Posted on November 2, 2017 March 7, 2018 Seven Cheap Things in Three Minutes Forty Five Seconds Get a copy of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things which I wrote with Jason W Moore , at your local independent bookstore in the US and Canada If you must , here’s the Amazon link I’ll get a referral fee which I’ll give to La Via Campesina We’re committed to making sure these ideas spread far and wide . The book’s introduction , in which we lay out our argument at some length , is available for free here Continue reading Seven Cheap Things in Three Minutes Forty Five Seconds” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list

  • March 2017 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2017 Posted on March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 Practice Reparation I was asked to contribute to  Letters to a Young Farmer  a collection patterned on Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet For inspiration , I re-read America’s poet laureate of the soil , Wendell Berry . His 1973 Manifesto : The Mad Farmer Liberation Front is very good . Its last line : Continue reading Practice Reparation” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American

  • November 2016 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2016 Posted on November 11, 2016 November 11, 2016 Developing the Syllabus for an Agroecology Course Bob St Peter , activist and farmer in northern Maine , is working on developing a syllabus for an agroecology course .   Miguel Altieri sends these two  sources to help . What else can Bob look at to develop his own curriculum Please share your ideas in the comments and if you want to join the school , more details are below , and you can contact Bob  at  Agroecologymaine gmail.com Continue reading Developing the Syllabus for an Agroecology Course” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're

  • July 2016 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : July 2016 Posted on July 11, 2016 Ask Not What Refugees Can Do For Us Co-written with Eric Tang , and published by Reuters on World Refugee Day , 2016.  Today is World Refugee Day , the most contentious one in recent memory . Refugee resettlement once enjoyed bipartisan support in the United States , but in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and Orlando there are few issues more polarizing in this election year . At the center of the storm are Syrian refugees fleeing persecution , many of them making the deadly passage across the Mediterranean . Fear-mongering conservatives demand that all Syrians be kept out of the United

  • March 2016 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2016 Posted on March 16, 2016 March 15, 2016 Message to FLOTUS : Let’s All Move My comrade here at the LBJ School Erin Lentz wrote this with me , to welcome Michelle Obama to Austin . Republished here from the Austin American-Statesman   Continue reading Message to FLOTUS : Let’s All Move” Tweet Posted on March 9, 2016 March 8, 2016 TEDMED : The Barefoot Technologists Last year , I gave a TEDMED talk about some of the people we’ve been following at the Soils , Food and Healthy Communities Project in Northern Malawi . Here’s the talk , and accompanying post , courtesy of TEDMED . See more of the footage at the

  • January 2015 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2015 Posted on January 28, 2015 April 29, 2015 Ida B Wells , Science Fiction Writer Ida B Wells deserves her place in the canon of journalism and social change . In the science fiction , not so much . I found her A Story of 1900” , written in 1886, while digging for other things . It may not be a classic , but not only was it written two years before Edward Bellamy’s epochal Looking Backward but the story lives and breathes Octavia Butler’s thoughts on the use of science fiction for black people Continue reading Ida B Wells , Science Fiction Writer” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're

  • September 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2014 Posted on September 29, 2014 April 29, 2015 A Window in the Cathedral of the Green Revolution When the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations announced it was going to take agroecology sufficiently seriously to hold a conference on it , reasonable people were pleased , and sceptical . Pleased because the FAO has been agnostic about agroecology’s scientific developments in addressing problems that the FAO itself is charged with tackling . Sceptical because the reason’s for the FAO’s historical reticence are hardly going to be fixed by a conference . Nonetheless , the great and the good from

  • August 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2014 Posted on August 29, 2014 March 9, 2016 How to Be Curious About the Green Revolution Social media is alive with folks’ thoughts on Michael Specter’s recent New Yorker piece As the controversy fades , I worry that people will be left with three ideas . Continue reading How to Be Curious About the Green Revolution” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook

  • June 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2014 Posted on June 18, 2014 April 29, 2015 Joan Dye Gussow : Women , Food and the Survival of the Species While I slog away at the Generation Food project , here’s more from the occasional series of pamphlets and books from the history of the food movement a 1988 lecture by the excellent Joan Dye Gussow : Women , Food , and the Survival of the Species With thanks , as ever , to DBS , and to Joan . Continue reading Joan Dye Gussow : Women , Food and the Survival of the Species” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by

  • April 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2014 Posted on April 19, 2014 April 29, 2015 Thoughts on Land Reform Summits in San Francisco In San Francisco , from April 25-28, 400 people from across the country and around the world gathered to discuss an awkward problem – land reform in America . Land reform is a loaded term , one that reeled conference participants†imaginations toward the antics of Third World dictators and communist zealots . It†s hard to conceive a more un-American activity than thinking about an alternative to private property . Yet here were the Friends of the Earth next to the NAACP west coast region , alongside the Archdiocese of Kansas

  • March 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2014 Posted on March 10, 2014 April 29, 2015 Cyberspace   Whole Earth Summit    I’ll  be talking with Nikki Silvestri about  Love , Purpose , the Food Movement , 5:15-6:15pm . EDT   Click here to register for FREE Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food Politics Mark Bittman Pig Penning

  • February 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2014 Posted on February 1, 2014 April 29, 2015 People Land Magazine , vols 1 and 2 I mentioned yesterday that Pete Seeger’s views appeared in People Land . I’m not sure that it’s as easy to find land reform magazines as it used to be . Were it not for a friend , DBS , I’d not have come across them either . Continue reading People Land Magazine , vols 1 and 2” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten

  • January 2014 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2014 Posted on January 28, 2014 April 29, 2015 Pete Seeger Presente Pete Seeger had a thing or two to say about private property , which is why his thoughts were included in the US land reform magazine yes , there used to be such a thing People Land You’ll find the page below in Volume 1 Number 2 Winter 1974. Continue reading Pete Seeger Presente Tweet Posted on January 17, 2014 April 29, 2015 MLK’s Radicalism Muted By MLK Archives sponsors : JP Morgan Chase Co . : Photo Jim Hinton , courtesy of Norma Rogers Carnegie Hall Archives This Martin Luther King day , why not celebrate by reading one of MLK’s last speeches , the

  • November 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2013 Posted on November 27, 2013 April 29, 2015 Beyond Foodworkers’ Karmic Tip Jar This Thanksgiving Via the Huffington Post Thanksgiving is an odd holiday for those of us born outside the U.S . I studied it for the citizenship test , where it’s an answer to the question  Name two national U.S . holidays . 8221  But I never managed to shake the feeling that I was doing it wrong . This year , though , I’ll be getting the hang of it thanks to a lot of people who won’t be at my . table Continue reading Beyond Foodworkers’ Karmic Tip Jar This Thanksgiving” Tweet Posted on November 21, 2013 April 29, 2015 Food Sovereignty : A

  • October 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2013 Posted on October 15, 2013 April 29, 2015 Kent , OH October 22 at 7:30 p.m . in the Kent Student Center in Room 306. More details here Tweet Posted on October 15, 2013 April 29, 2015 Ithaca , NY A History of Good Bad Ideas to Feed the World 160 Mann , Cornell University 7pm , Wednesday , October 16th Sponsored by the Food Collective Tweet Posted on October 9, 2013 April 29, 2015 Going against Duflo In the past , I’ve linked to pieces that challenge the ethically untroubled , and systemically timid work of  Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo , of Poor Economics fame . If you’re unfamiliar with their work , the quick

  • September 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2013 Posted on September 25, 2013 April 29, 2015 San Francisco CA Wed , Oct 2 2013 6:30pm Finding Justice , Health , Security and Sustainability in Good Food Jason , Mark  Editor,  Earth Island Journal Co-manager , Alemany Farm Nick Saul CEO , Community Food Centres Canada Author,  The Stop Raj Patel Activist Author,  Stuffed and Starved Nikki Henderson Executive Director , People’s Grocery Continue reading San Francisco CA” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes

  • August 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2013 Posted on August 1, 2013 April 29, 2015 New Haven , CT Food Sovereignty : A Critical Dialogue September 14–15, 2013 Yale University More details here Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food Politics Mark Bittman Pig Penning Scott James The Commoner The Dead End Diet The Virtual Stoa

  • June 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2013 Posted on June 12, 2013 The G8’s Diet Coke Plus” Politics This piece was originally posted at The Guardian Continue reading The G8’s Diet Coke Plus” Politics” Tweet Posted on June 7, 2013 Wendy’s Promises are as Empty as a Fast Food Calorie This piece was originally posted at The Huffington Post Wendy’s , the world’s third largest burger joint , is having a makeover . From being Wendy’s Old Fashioned Burgers” we’re now told it’s just Wendy’s . 8221 The ginger-haired befreckled Wendy remains on the logo , though in their TV spots she’s a hipper twentysomething . Yet behind the new facade lie some very old-fashioned .

  • March 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2013 Posted on March 22, 2013 March 22, 2013 It has been 100 days . Where is Sombath That’s what I’ll be asking on Monday , when I call the Lao Embassy in Washington on Monday between 9:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:30 Eastern time on 202 332-6416 7. It has been 100 days Where is Sombath And then I’ll send em this fax on 202 332-4923. Continue reading It has been 100 days . Where is Sombath Tweet Posted on March 22, 2013 March 22, 2013 I say Tomahto , you say . exploitation From the Huffington Post Continue reading I say Tomahto , you say exploitation . 8221 Tweet Posted on March 4, 2013 The Misanthropocene This essay first

  • January 2013 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2013 Posted on January 30, 2013 Last words on l’affaire Lynas Three last things on the Mark Lynas story some of which is reprised by the CBC here First , thanks to Daniel Foodieana Jones” Bowman Simon for observing that I have , contrary to a previous statement heard of Mark Lynas . I’ve even cited him , in an academic piece on food rebellions Although his original Selling Starvation’ piece in CorporateWatch magazine isn’t on the original site , the good folk at the Internet Archive have it here Continue reading Last words on l’affaire Lynas” Tweet Posted on January 15, 2013 Stop rural slavery Respect the farmworkers Via

  • December 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : December 2012 Posted on December 15, 2012 Detroit : A Raisin in the Sun by Malik Yakini Council member Ken Cockrel must be trippin On Tuesday , December 11, after he , along with Saunteel Jenkins , James Tate , Gary Brown , and Charles Pugh , voted to approve the ill-conceived Hantz land sale proposal , he was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying , “a ‘no†vote would have sent the message to the world that Detroit isn†t really serious about urban agriculture.” The foremost advocates and practitioners of urban agriculture in Detroit opposed the Hantz proposal . It is groups like Feedom Freedom Growers , Earthworks

  • November 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2012 Posted on November 30, 2012 November 30, 2012 Junk Food Advertising Directed at Kids is Core to Obesity Crisis Advertisements showcase products to consumers , convincing them that this product or that product is the choice that best suit their needs . What happens when children are exposed to advertisements for foods that negatively affect their health Continue reading Junk Food Advertising Directed at Kids is Core to Obesity Crisis” Tweet Posted on November 30, 2012 Edmonton , Alberta , Canada Raj Patel author , journalist , and food policy expert , continuously challenges our presumptions about the global economy

  • October 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2012 Posted on October 31, 2012 October 31, 2012 Food Myths Busted The fine Anna Lappé has put together a splendid short film on the lies told by industrial agriculture lobbyists , and the ad agencies that love . them Please share far and wide , and check out the resources at FoodMythBusters Tweet Posted on October 30, 2012 October 30, 2012 The Soils of War The top grossing film in the United States this weekend was Argo an above average caper about how the CIA smuggled six embassy staff out of the country during the Iran hostage . crisis Argo’s Agricultural Attaché right Continue reading The Soils of War” Tweet Posted on

  • September 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2012 Posted on September 28, 2012 How did I miss bittman’s piec How did I miss bittman s piece on Alzheimer’s being Type 3 Diabetes http : t.co kztJBmAU Suspect I need to lay off the sugary . treats Tweet Posted on September 25, 2012 Meantime , check out Rupa Meantime , check out Rupa April Fishes’ new tracks http : t.co jhbtoQBq and La Semilla’s Well campaign http : t.co PbN8hMV7 Tweet Posted on September 25, 2012 Aaaand we’re back . The FoodGe Aaaand we’re back . The FoodGeneration team was in Malawi and has returned with some incredible stories . Watch this space for more , . soonish Tweet Posted on September 10, 2012

  • August 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2012 Posted on August 25, 2012 Maywa Montenegro’s Food Waste Linkorama Berkeley’s excellent Maywa Montenegro sent this fine romp through the latest food waste links , each one of which is a winner . Many thanks MM The new NRDC report on food waste gets some media attention . Americans are throwing away 40 percent of food in the U.S . the equivalent of 165 billion in uneaten food each year , 8221 writes Environmental Leader , a trade publication . While losses come  at each step in the supply chain from farm to processor to retailer to household   The Atlantic digs through the report and notes , by far the most significant

  • July 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : July 2012 Posted on July 31, 2012 MT MarionNestle- Am . Beverage MT MarionNestle Am . Beverage Assn sponsors meeting on obesity in minorities http : t.co 7iGdIxp3 Next : Bears fund inquiry on poo in . woods Tweet Posted on July 31, 2012 thanks to jonarcher and scot thanks to jonarcher and scottjames for leading the way on our 48hr FoodGeneration 2000 matching fund challenge http : t.co mvPbVRzH Tweet Posted on July 30, 2012 We’re live Ask us anything We’re live Ask us anything no really , anything at http : t.co 4lKZzlI3 Tweet Posted on July 30, 2012 Got questions on food , film , a Got questions on food , film , activism Ask

  • June 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2012 Posted on June 29, 2012 ClimateChangePic http : t.co ClimateChangePic http : t.co FKrC02TR via SPIEGELONLINE Tweet Posted on June 27, 2012 Thanks all at plosmedbigfood Thanks all at plosmedbigfood Tweet Posted on June 27, 2012 Soda marketing is particularly Soda marketing is particularly nasty gastromom spawns all kinds of ill , from bulemia http : t.co KFIVkSS2 to diabetes plosmedbigfood Tweet Posted on June 27, 2012 Always interesting to hear co Always interesting to hear consumerfreedom troll and howl , and ignore the evidence http : t.co oAGIblEr plosmedbigfood Tweet Posted on June 27, 2012 Agreed AuthorBruce but also

  • May 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : May 2012 Posted on May 22, 2012 If you’re near Virginia , drop If you’re near Virginia , drop by Sammie Moshenberg’s fundraiser . If not , support from afar Noble fighter , noble fight . http : t.co fbrvtUOV Tweet Posted on May 22, 2012 In Okinawa Berkeley , Fa In Okinawa Berkeley , Farmland is for Farming http : t.co JWQfyvff OccupyTheFarm Close the Base http : t.co A52gsPrT Tweet Posted on May 21, 2012 May 22, 2012 Farmland is for Farming Here on Okinawa , there†s a venerable tradition of taking fine agricultural land and turning it into something crappy , like an airbase The Japanese did it before WWII . The US did it

  • April 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2012 Posted on April 24, 2012 MT StirToAction : a new accoun MT StirToAction a new account of the criminalisation of Food Not Bombs by co-founder Keith McHenry http : t.co wKiEGxSF Tweet Posted on April 23, 2012 Thx vishrutarya for getting t Thx vishrutarya for getting the word out about Earthday and Occupy make a baby . 8217 http : t.co bspGZBkw occupyfarm and foodsovereignty Tweet Posted on April 23, 2012 April 23, 2012 Earth Day and Occupy make a Baby : Food Sovereignty The idea of “food sovereignty” is nearly 20 years old , and most folk still don†t quite know what it means . To be fair , the term ‘sovereigntyâ€

  • March 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2012 Posted on March 30, 2012 Thanks , Canadians Canadians Mayo Schmidt , President and Chief Executive Officer of Viterra one of the world†s leading agribusinesses and Canada†s largest grain handler thanks you In his company†s latest report available in their investor briefcase he even puts a number on his gratitude for your impending wheat board privatisation Continue reading Thanks , Canadians Tweet Posted on March 23, 2012 Arundhati Roy’s breathtaking Arundhati Roy’s breathtaking new sweep through India sets current corruption into scandalous context http : t.co kVp3rBYY Tweet Posted on March 23, 2012 What’s

  • February 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2012 Posted on February 29, 2012 Shackdweller Statecraft Although you’ll have to wait a little longer to see Dear Mandela the fine documentary about shackdweller struggles in South Africa , a recently-released companion short is well worth watching , especially . today A FISH IN A TIN a companion short to the documentary film DEAR MANDELA from Sleeping Giant on Vimeo Today , shackdwellers are taking their municipality to court . The government evicted poor residents from their homes , and threw them into transit camps , where they live like a fish in a tin’ , waiting for more permanent housing that never comes . It’s not

  • January 2012 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2012 Posted on January 23, 2012 Loved hearing TheCivilWars y Loved hearing TheCivilWars yesterday they wrote the title track to FindingNorth insanely talented http : t.co JtjaRn2v Tweet Posted on January 23, 2012 Harpers Index Jan 2012 of Ch Harpers Index Jan 2012 of Chinese and Americans respectively who struggle to pay for food in 2008 : 16, 9. In 2011 : 6, 19 findingnorth Tweet Posted on January 23, 2012 On DemocracyNow this morning On DemocracyNow this morning to talk about Gingrich’s bile and FindingNorth http : t.co k5E0lbNA more here http : t.co kjY0mybG Tweet Posted on January 23, 2012 January 23, 2012 One Nation ,

  • December 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : December 2011 Posted on December 15, 2011 Blame China or technology for Blame China or technology for lower workers’ wages in the US No . Best explanation : the Shock Doctrine . http : t.co DmZbgrcr Tweet Posted on December 8, 2011 GRAIN report:80 of milk in Gl GRAIN report:80 of milk in Global South from small farmers . Nestlé et al trying to destroy Peoples Milk’ http : t.co ZFyaCf9T Tweet Posted on December 8, 2011 What can the Black Panthers te What can the Black Panthers teach the food movement http : t.co GM51pnbU an excerpt from http : t.co BX38OwfR Tweet Posted on December 6, 2011 Jim Goodman , dairy farmer and Jim Goodman

  • November 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2011 Posted on November 29, 2011 San Francisco , CA Kitchen Table Talks : In Solidarity with the Occupy Movement Continue reading San Francisco , CA” Tweet Posted on November 29, 2011 Indian govt wants to hand Walm Indian govt wants to hand Walmart 1bn customers . Indians have a better idea . http : t.co brNMNbl1 Tweet Posted on November 29, 2011 Two ace links between Occupy Two ace links between Occupy and feminism from Silvia Federici http : t.co bfjOgtBS and from the streets of S . Africa http : t.co 9fAb60ck Tweet Posted on November 29, 2011 Hallowed by history but not b Hallowed by history but not by reason” Judge

  • October 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2011 Posted on October 24, 2011 Hey Vijay aka PeaceINCaNovel Hey Vijay aka PeaceINCaNovel great to see you and your excellent novel written up in India Abroad http : t.co i3Y9zoIT Tweet Posted on October 23, 2011 The brilliant Laura Carlsen sh The brilliant Laura Carlsen shows how NAFTA is still starving Mexico http : t.co XC6h30dF Tweet Posted on October 23, 2011 Learned much from planestupid Learned much from planestupid and John Stewart on the Aviation Justice Express tour thanks loads gents . http : t.co 0GUdrPyW Tweet Posted on October 16, 2011 Fine WorldFoodDay info from F Fine WorldFoodDay info from Focus on Global

  • September 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2011 Posted on September 30, 2011 You can measure a government You can measure a government by the people they ban:US just kicked out the UK’s most effective environmentalist http : t.co bjV96YNY Tweet Posted on September 30, 2011 Great take-down of the World B Great take-down of the World Bank’s latest World Development Report http : t.co GCpp78rU No , gender isn’t just smart . econoomics’ Tweet Posted on September 28, 2011 Biopiracy India accuses Monsa Biopiracy India accuses Monsanto for stealing aubergine eggplant brinjal genetic material http : t.co NRe3R24x Tweet Posted on September 28, 2011 The 136bn bet on food

  • August 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2011 Posted on August 28, 2011 Wikileaks : US govt officials Wikileaks US govt officials pimping out GMOs . Who’d have thought http : t.co pUgLptp Tweet Posted on August 26, 2011 How did I miss Bernie Sanders’ How did I miss Bernie Sanders’ GAO audit , and news of 5 trillion secret loans Socialism for the rich” aye . http : t.co GxD7Ygc Tweet Posted on August 26, 2011 Robert Reich Eating Ben Bernanke’s Chowder Odd title for a post . Odd thing for Robert Reich to be doing . But very well done . Tweet Posted on August 26, 2011 Great piece MochaManual : 8221 clos Great piece MochaManual closed-door deals between the

  • July 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : July 2011 Posted on July 18, 2011 Great news from SouthAfrica a Great news from SouthAfrica and a perfect birthday gift for Nelson Mandela-The Kennedy 12 have been freed . http : t.co RA9WJ0P Tweet Posted on July 18, 2011 July 18, 2011 Dear Mandela Good news from South Africa today . No , the news isn’t that Nelson Mandela is 93 today . It’s something far more in keeping with Mandela’s spirit and struggle . The Kennedy 12 twelve men accused of a range of crimes , including murder have been acquitted . It’s becoming increasingly clear that they were framed . The government couldn’t stand the idea of poor people in the poorest areas

  • June 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2011 Posted on June 29, 2011 Grain.org report : public pensi Grain.org report : public pension funds are bankrolling the global LandGrab http : t.co h3dnRaP Tweet Posted on June 29, 2011 RT CivilEats : Now on Civil Ea RT CivilEats Now on Civil Eats : Organic in Cuba : Something from Nothing http : is.gd OqtwLh by eathere2 Tweet Posted on June 28, 2011 Blazing Brazilian Biofuel Beatdown The Food and Agriculture Organization will have a new director-general , José Graziano da Silva . Among Graziano’s accomplishments is the Zero Hunger programme , which has been partly responsible for getting 40 million people out of hunger .

  • May 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : May 2011 Posted on May 31, 2011 Food prices to x2 in next 20 Food prices to x2 in next 20 years mainly cos of climate change http : t.co QcSe7wy.But small farmers cool the Earth http : bit.ly k2U3Ry Tweet Posted on May 31, 2011 RIP Gil Scott Heron http : gu RIP Gil Scott Heron http : gu.com p 2pddf Tweet Posted on May 27, 2011 RT civileater : Park Wilde ta RT civileater Park Wilde takes a hard look at a poverty study about cocacola by oxfam funded by cocacola http : is.gd lkuGsD Tweet Posted on May 26, 2011 The Spanish Revolt The series of posts that used to be prefaced with FYI” is now up on my Twitter stream apologies to the one

  • April 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2011 Posted on April 29, 2011 April 29, 2011 On the Royal Wedding The Royal Wedding is over , and Britain can go back to its routine celebrity obsessions and police excesses I’ll be raising a glass to Ian Bone whose hit Better Dead than Wed dates from the last royal wedding , of which I was reminded by Red Pepper magazine Best : lines Continue reading On the Royal Wedding” Tweet Posted on April 28, 2011 Geoffrey Sea’s Nuclear Bulletin 22 The Word is Bail Nuclear Bulletin 22 27 iv 2011 The Word is . Bail A summation of events since Bulletin 21 is in order : Japan has extended the evacuation zone and imposed tough measures

  • March 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2011 Posted on March 31, 2011 March 30, 2011 FYI : A New Model for Food Banks The excellent people at The Stop the food bank that wants to put itself out of business have a fine write-up in the Globe and Mail . Read more here Tweet Posted on March 30, 2011 March 30, 2011 The Symphony Way Before the Soccer World Cup last year , I was asked to write a foreword to an anthology of life stories told by South African pavement dwellers , living on Symphony Way near Cape Town . The stories blew me away . It was very easy to write the short introduction below , just as it’s easy to encourage you to take a look at it now . The book is

  • February 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2011 Posted on February 24, 2011 Do the Right Thing The Coalition of Immokalee Workers are pushing forward with their wage demands , targeting two supermarket giants Publix and Ahold . I’ll be taking aim at Ahold a little later next month , but if you’re on the East Coast of the US , you can join in right now find out more at the CIW’s Do The Right Thing campaign page . Tweet Posted on February 21, 2011 February 22, 2011 Democracy Activists Arrested in Zimbabwe After Egypt , activists around the world have had the wind at their backs and the state at their throats . In Libya , Bahrain , Jordan and from Wisconsin to South

  • January 2011 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2011 Posted on January 31, 2011 Welcome to the Future , Same as the Past More chop logic from our leaders , this time coming from the World Economic Forum . As the BBC reports , World leaders have warned that rising food prices could lead to social unrest and even economic war” But business leaders at the World Economic Forum rejected calls for curbs on commodity speculation . 8221 Continue reading Welcome to the Future , Same as the Past” Tweet Posted on January 31, 2011 Cincinnati , OH A Conversation with Michael Hardt , at the Taft Research Center Tweet Posted on January 31, 2011 Durban , South Africa Time of the Writer

  • December 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : December 2010 Posted on December 9, 2010 Beverly Bell and Tory Field : Miami Rice I don’t normally post other folks’ articles but this is a particularly important piece on the US involvement in the Haitian rice racket , written by one of the most vital and urgent voices from Haiti , Beverly Bell More below the . fold Continue reading Beverly Bell and Tory Field : Miami Rice” Tweet Posted on December 8, 2010 Killer Pizza Fred Kaufman has written a terrific piece about Domino’s pizza . The pizza industry calls itself the world’s most popular food” . As with almost everything else about the industry’s narrative , this is a claim that

  • November 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2010 Posted on November 30, 2010 Milan , Italy Dec 1, 20h30, CasaLoca , . Milan Tweet Posted on November 29, 2010 FYI : Outsourcing Carbon For some reason , I’d thought I’d posted this already , but since I can’t seem to find it , and since the next round of climate change talks are about to start , it’s worth repeating . Continue reading FYI : Outsourcing Carbon” Tweet Posted on November 25, 2010 Jesus Christ Must Have Had Mud on His Shoes Despite my views on religion I found this incredibly moving . It’s a message from members of the Abahlali baseMjondolo shackdwellers movement in South Africa , appealing to friends in

  • October 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2010 Posted on October 30, 2010 Food Crisis Analysis The Guardian’s excellent Felicity Lawrence has put together a podcast on global food security and its decline Among the contributors Jayati Ghosh and Olivier De Schutter As far as I can tell , there isn’t a way to comment on the podcast at the Guardian’s site , but feel free to pile in below . Tweet Posted on October 30, 2010 Books by my bedside Three books that I’m excited to read : Love in the Time of AIDS by Mark Hunter . It has been acclaimed as the best book about HIV AIDS in South Africa , and I’m not surprised . I was in South Africa when Mark was doing his

  • September 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2010 Posted on September 28, 2010 Letter from Mozambique I promised to share this as soon as I was able : the English translation of a statement from the Mozambican National Peasants Union More , below the fold . Continue reading Letter from Mozambique” Tweet Posted on September 25, 2010 September 23, 2010 Speculation 101 One of the reasons I thought Michael Moore’s Capitalism , A Love Story was a career highlight is because of clips like this , in which our hapless hero tries to find out what a derivative actually . is Continue reading Speculation 101” Tweet Posted on September 24, 2010 September 23, 2010 Analysing

  • August 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2010 Posted on August 20, 2010 August 11, 2010 FYI : New Evidence Shows US Role in Lumumba’s Death New Evidence Shows U.S . Role in Congo’s Decision to Send Patrice Lumumba to His Death by Stephen R . Weissman August 1, 2010 Fifty years ago , the former Belgian Congo received its independence under the democratically elected government of former prime minister Patrice Lumumba . Less than seven months later , Lumumba and two colleagues were , in the contemporary idiom , rendered” to their Belgian-backed secessionist enemies , who tortured them before putting them before a firing squad . The Congo would not hold another

  • July 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : July 2010 Posted on July 28, 2010 July 28, 2010 The Value of Nothing Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy thegardenmovie.com To read the first chapter , click here For more information on The Value of Nothing visit Raj’s author page at http : us.macmillan.com author rajpatel Continue reading The Value of Nothing” Tweet Posted on July 28, 2010 July 28, 2010 Congressional Testimony on Hunger Contributing Factors and International Responses to the Global Food . Crisis Watch Full Size Video Tweet Posted on July 28, 2010 July 30, 2010 Raj Patel on CNN Tweet Posted on July 28, 2010 July 29, 2010 UCF Global Perspective Raj discusses how

  • June 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : June 2010 Posted on June 29, 2010 Women v Wal-Mart , Ten Years On It has taken nearly a decade , but the class action suit brought on behalf of over one million women looks , almost , like it’ll make it to court reports Women’s eNews That day in court is likely to bloody Wal-Mart . As one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs puts it : Continue reading Women v Wal-Mart , Ten Years On” Tweet Posted on June 25, 2010 The Third Time as Toilet Paper I ended yesterday’s discussion on the G20 with the suggestion that in deciding whether governments or financial markets run the world , it was becoming increasingly clear that the answer is :

  • April 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2010 Posted on April 26, 2010 April 22, 2010 Ay You fergot la yoghurt Just in case you were wondering , the volcano in Iceland is an anarchist A fine article from the Reykjavík Grapevine . Tweet Posted on April 23, 2010 April 22, 2010 And the Horse You Rode In On A fascinating academic article has been circulating recently , comparing the energy it takes to run a conventional farm with that required on an organic one . If you’re interested in the real’ costs that go into your food , then the cost and benefits of energy use should certainly be high up there . And this study delivers . What makes it particularly good is the

  • March 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2010 Posted on March 30, 2010 March 30, 2010 Hurdles in Thinking about Hunger- A Letter to the New York Times The New York Times seems quite happy to trot out the standard myths about how Africa is waiting to be tossed the left-belt of genetically modified food Here’s a response to a piece that the paper published a little while ago , by John Collins Rudolf , that offers perhaps the only attempt we’ve seen at addressing some of the issues that Eric Holt-Gimenez , Annie Shattuck and I raised in our Nation magazine piece a few months back . Predictably , Rudolf offers no new evidence , but the triumph of this dodgy thinking

  • February 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2010 Posted on February 28, 2010 February 20, 2010 Right to the City 2 David Harvey : The Right to the City New Left Review September-October 2008 http : www.newleftreview.org view=2740 The Right to the City Examining the link between urbanization and capitalism , David Harvey suggests we view Haussmann†s reshaping of Paris and today†s explosive growth of cities as responses to systemic crises of accumulation–and issues a call to democratize the power to shape the urban . experience Continue reading Right to the City 2” Tweet Posted on February 28, 2010 February 20, 2010 The Right to the City 1 My friend Bill K

  • January 2010 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2010 Posted on January 29, 2010 Class Mobility in the United States George Carlin has a fine line about how it’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it Yet it’s one of the most pervasive myths that America is the place that will reward hard work and application . One of the ironies of the spread of free market fundamentalism is that with the spread of free markets , it has become increasingly difficult to move up or down a class . A fine study a few years ago by David Leonhardt and the New York Times looked at class in America over the past three decades . Do click on the link for more , but

  • December 2009 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : December 2009 Posted on December 29, 2009 July 28, 2010 Raj Patel on the World Food Crisis Raj Patel details the events leading up to the World Food Crisis on SBS Dateline News aired : 1st of May 2008 Watch Full Size Video Tweet Posted on December 27, 2009 February 13, 2010 Durban†s bedtime stories : Abahlali baseMjondolo’s struggle continues Published in Pambazuka News 2009-12-16, Issue 462. In a house in a leafy Durban suburb , lightly festooned with Christmas decorations , a TV is playing the Adam Sandler movie Bedtime Stories’ . Across scenes of gumballs falling from the sky and Roman gladiator races , our hero tries to get

  • November 2009 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : November 2009 Posted on November 30, 2009 The Value of Nothing UK Animation Continue reading The Value of Nothing UK Animation” Tweet Posted on November 30, 2009 Cineforum Climate Change Conference Cineforum Climate Change Conference event , discussion on new economic paradigms , with Malini Mehr . More information here Wallacespace , 22 Dukes Road , London , WC1H 9PN Tweet Posted on November 27, 2009 December 2, 2009 Buy Nothing Day The Friday after Thanksgiving is traditionally the day when US consumers rush to the shops , and spend until their eyes bleed . But tomorrow doesn’t inevitably have to involve running around with a

  • October 2009 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : October 2009 Posted on October 30, 2009 Destroying African Agriculture The ever thoughtful Walden Bello tells the long history of the destruction of African agriculture , via Foreign Policy In Focus Destroying African Agriculture Continue reading Destroying African Agriculture” Tweet Posted on October 30, 2009 Agricultural Fascism in Bolivia Roger Burbach , whose 1980 book Agribusiness in the Americas blew open the story of corporate power and food on this continent , has sent his latest thoughts on agribusiness and Bolivia . Continue reading Agricultural Fascism in Bolivia” Tweet Posted on October 30, 2009 Brazil : Increasing

  • September 2009 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : September 2009 Posted on September 30, 2009 November 2, 2009 The Brass Liberation Orchestra does Whole Foods Continue reading The Brass Liberation Orchestra does Whole Foods” Tweet Posted on September 30, 2009 November 2, 2009 Land Grabs in Pakistan African countries aren’t the only ones where you can see land grabs If you live in Asia , the sport of the rich can also be seen there . In Pakistan , a new website Zamana tells of the larceny happening there , even though the country is already at extreme risk of hunger Predictably , the World Bank and IMF are up to their necks in this mess Important . reading Tweet Posted on September

  • August 2009 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : August 2009 Posted on August 30, 2009 November 2, 2009 Hello world Welcome to WordPress . This is your first post . Edit or delete it , then start blogging Tweet Posted on August 10, 2009 November 2, 2009 This Land Is Whose Land At President Obama†s inauguration , Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger thumped out this splendid tune , a rendition of Woodie Guthrie†s classic This Land Is Your Land The most delightful verse appears at around 2:25 Continue reading This Land Is Whose Land Tweet Posted on August 4, 2009 November 2, 2009 It wasn’t easy , but nothing is Normal service will soon resume here at Stuffed and Starved . After

  • May 2009 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : May 2009 Posted on May 17, 2009 November 2, 2009 Hunger I’m very much looking forward to seeing the new film by Steve McQueen no , this Steve McQueen about hunger-striking IRA prisoners , entitled Hunger I’ll write about that when I’ve seen it , but in the meantime , here’s another film , La Faim hunger’ in French that remixes ideas of hunger , gluttony , desire and fear . It’s an entirely captivating eleven minutes long , and one of first 1970s stabs at computer animation . Continue reading Hunger” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter

  • April 2009 Raj Patel

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    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2009 Posted on April 6, 2009 November 2, 2009 Back from the Dead The site’s back It had been overrun by spammers , and until I’ve patched the site , you’ll not be able to contact me . Hope to fix this soon , though Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action American Stomach Archein Bitten – New York Times Black Looks Civil Eats Cook Here and Now Food First Global Issues Grist Marion Nestle's Food Politics Mark Bittman Pig Penning Scott

  • January 2007 Raj Patel

    Updated: 2023-01-11 08:08:31
    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : January 2007 Posted on January 15, 2007 November 2, 2009 Thanks for stopping by My first book , Stuffed And Starved is now available It’s a story of the global food system , about why there are one billion overweight people and nearly a billion going hungry , and about the millions of people who are fighting back . The book has an accompanying website here Continue reading Thanks for stopping by” Tweet Newsletter Join Raj's email list Leave this field empty if you're human : Search : for Search Follow Raj Patel Latest on Twitter Tweets by RajPatel Events No Events Links That Raj Likes Agricultural Policy Agroecology in Action

  • April 2006 Raj Patel

    Updated: 2023-01-11 08:08:30
    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : April 2006 Posted on April 21, 2006 UnFreedom Day Asikhululekile The 27th April marks the day in South Africa on which the first free elections were held in 1994 : Freedom Day , is how the government consecrated the event . The end of Apartheid has been followed by arrangements that are less detestable , but not by much . Inequality is up in what was , by state policy , one of the world’s most persistently unequal societies . Not to worry , you might counter . If inequality is increasing , it’s not because the poor are getting poorer , but that there’s a few people getting richer an augury of redistribution and high income for all

  • March 2006 Raj Patel

    Updated: 2023-01-11 08:08:30
    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : March 2006 Posted on March 31, 2006 You have been part of the solution Today , the Women of Ward 80 marched on their councillor , Bhekisisa Elliot Xulu . Like many councillors , Xulu is corrupt . The litany of allegations against him reads like a career in crime . You might wonder why the ANC allows so many corrupt councillors to operate so blamelessly . Well , it turns out that Xulu has struggle credentials : he was part of the United Democratic Front in the 1980s , and this , it seems , is his trump card . Having successfully associated himself with an at the moment unimpeachable moment in the New South Africa†s memory , he has

  • February 2006 Raj Patel

    Updated: 2023-01-11 08:08:29
    Skip to content Raj Patel Website of author , film-maker and academic , Raj Patel Menu Home Events Academic Film Books International Journalism Meet Raj Month : February 2006 Posted on February 24, 2006 Once more with feeling In the same place where the Peoples’ Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos twenty years ago today , there’s turmoil again . Meanne : writes A state of National Emergency or Proclamation 1017 has been declared by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo . The emergency rule gives the military and the police the power to arrest and use force against whosoever they perceive as ‘enemies†There are now threats of more political repression and curtailment of peoples†rights . And the situation is bound to get worse . Opposition Senator Aquilino Pimentel has called for an emergency

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