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A global step forward on climate and agriculture

By Shefali Sharma, Think Forward

Last week in Rome, the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security (CFS) agreed on key principles on how governments must address the massive food security challenge that climate change brings. The big news: Governments at the CFS recognized that policies addressing climate change must also support the Right to Food—an important step forward that if taken seriously by governments could result in a major shift in the way agriculture and land use are considered at the global climate talks.

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The myth of Feeding the World exposed in new video

By Mark Muller, Think Forward

IATP has long recognized that many of the drivers of the destructive industrial food system are not based on a sound rationale, but instead on a series of corporate marketing myths. IATP Food and Community Fellow Raj Patel, for example, has recently been taking on the false assumptions that contributed to the Green Revolution and the revitalized interest in a new Green Revolution.

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Moving ahead on food justice

By LaDonna Redmond, Think Forward

The U.S food system has never been just, fair or healthy. This is a shocking statement to some, but to the vast majority of people of color and tribal nations in the United States this has always been a reality. This sentiment was the thread connecting many of the conversations throughout all three days of IATP’s Food + Justice = Democracy conference last month in Minneapolis.

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World Food Day: Keep farmers on the land

By Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Think Forward

World Food Day is an event perhaps best known to those already advocating to end hunger in their own countries and around the globe.

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