Sustainable Agriculture & Trade - Heinrich Böll Stiftung

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Wheel of Life - Food, Climate, Human Rights, and the Economy

September 15, 2011 - The links between climate change and industrial agriculture create a nexus of crises—food insecurity, natural resource depletion and degradation, as well as human rights violations and inequities. This report unravels the interrelated causes of and effects on these issues. Debbie Barker more»

Waste water (dark areas in the center of the picture) from hog farm running off from the "spray field" (green field) into nearby creeks in eastern North Carolina. Picture by Anna Milena Jurca

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Our Daily Meat

- March 15, 2011 -

Americans consumed 275lb of meat in 2010. That is more than 341 grams each day. Most Americans do not know - or care to know - where their daily meat comes from. The truth is: in the United States, 79% of pigs are raised on farms with 2,000 pigs or more. These factory farms promised better employment, affordable food for everybody and better, more efficient farming practices. They delivered the opposite.

Anna Milena Jurca and Lisa Grau more»

Film

This Land is Our Land

- December 1, 2010 - For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. more»

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Can Europe rise to the Challenge? EU Policy Responses to the Global Crisis

- October 6, 2010 - There are crises and crises. Some come and go without leaving any lasting trace but others signal a break with the past. You do not need to be much of a prophet to predict that the current global economic shock will go down in the history books as the end of an era. more»

Dossier

Genes, Bytes and Emissions: To Whom Does the World Belong?

- An important addition to the growing international dialogue about the commons can be found in the new anthology, Genes, Bytes and Emissions: To Whom Does the World Belong? The essays in this book are now available online in English. more»

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Report

Wheel of Life - Food, Climate, Human Rights, and the Economy

Article

Our Daily Meat

Film

This Land is Our Land

Report

Can Europe rise to the Challenge? EU Policy Responses to the Global Crisis

Dossier

Genes, Bytes and Emissions: To Whom Does the World Belong?

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