Food Crisis in the Americas

In August, Bolivian president Evo Morales won a referendum on his term in office with 67% of the vote. The

In early March, Olivier de Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, said there had been

In October, I visited rural communities in two Paraguayan departments, Alto Paraná and San Pedro, to photograph the social conflicts

On January 20 the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe witnessed the launch of the largest political movement in its history. For

Since genetically modified food crops were first commercialized in the mid-1990s, they have been touted as a miracle technology that,

The main country road that passes by Las Cuadras, a poor rural area in the zone of El Valle, in

The Venezuelan opposition faced a difficult question in February, as the country prepared to vote in a national referendum on

The Vía Campesina movement’s roots reach back to the North-North, South-South, and North-South exchanges among farm organizations that occurred throughout

My Life With Che: The Making of a Revolutionary by Hilda Gadea (Foreword by Ricardo Gadea), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 233

We are the men and women of the land. We are those who produce food for the world. We have

Bajo Juárez: The City Devouring Its Daughters (DVD, 2007), a documentary film by Alejandra Sánchez and José Antonio Cordero, 96

During the first months of 2007, Mexicans took to the streets to protest a sudden doubling of the price of