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Lurching from food crisis to food crisis

Blog Lurching from food crisis to food crisis by GRAIN

When will those occupying spaces of “power” ever get the message right? As the world faces a worsening food crisis – the third in 15 years, experts say – one would think that a convening of so many governments as […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Local food, War Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporate control, corporations, farming, free trade, globalization, industrial agriculture

Supply chain failures: another reason for localized economies

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The mainstream media – television, print and digital – routinely cycle through the litany of crises gripping the world. One week they’ll tell us about the latest climate disaster. The next, the focus may shift to the war in Ukraine. […]

Filed Under: Free Trade and Globalization, Localization, New economy, Transportation Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, economics, free trade, global food, globalization, jobs, trade agreements

Trade treaties and the climate emergency

The chickens have come home to roost for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Kenney bet around $1.5 billion of public money on a very risky prospect – the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. U.S. President Joe Biden, to the surprise of […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: climate change, corporate control, corporations, free trade, South, trade agreements

Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos

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This blog is also available in Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imagine cows […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: climate change, corporations, free trade, globalization, pollution, trade agreements

Saving Japan’s Seed Heritage from “Free Trade”

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This blog is also available in Greek, Russian and Spanish. I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an international Economics […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs, Resistance and Renewal, Uncategorized Tagged With: agriculture, corporate control, corporations, democracy, farming, free trade, globalization, industrial agriculture, local food, trade agreements

Globalization’s Deadly Footprint

This blog is also available in German, Russian and Spanish. That pollution is bad for our health will come as a surprise to no one. That pollution kills at least 9 million people every year might. This is 16 percent […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization, Health Tagged With: climate change, corporations, degrowth, economic growth, free trade, globalization, health

Trump Trauma

While we mourn the tragedy that fear, prejudice and ignorance “trumped” in the US Presidential election, now is the time to go deeper and broader with our work. There is a growing recognition that the scary situation we find ourselves […]

Filed Under: Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: far-right, free trade, globalization, income inequality, jobs, livelihoods, localization, nationalism, Trump

Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade?

Trump is a catastrophe, but so was the TPP. Since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I’ve found myself talking for the first time with a lot of my 20-something friends about trade agreements. My friends didn’t […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: corporations, democracy, free trade, globalization, TPP, trade agreements, Trump, TTIP

How Globalization Divides Us: Perspectives on Brexit from a Dual Citizen

When I woke up on June 24th and checked the news, I cried. Along with millions of people around the world. I’m a diehard believer in independence, freedom, democracy, and strong local economies. For some, the Brexit result represented those […]

Filed Under: Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: brexit, corporations, EU, European Union, free trade, immigrants, localization, privatization

Current Trade Treaties: “a revolution against law”

A respected human-rights expert at the United Nations, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, has joined the global movement opposing trade treaties like TPP and TTIP. And he has novel and powerful legal arguments. In international law, de Zayas says, there is a […]

Filed Under: Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: corporate rule, corporations, democracy, economics, free trade, globalization, international law, trade, UN

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