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Why Food Sovereignty Is the New Food Security

Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World


Salena Tramel

Instead of spending their money revitalizing the agricultural sector, NGO programs round up small-scale farmers to build roads and clean out sewage systems in return for food vouchers.

Honduran Coup Turns Violent, Sanctions Imposed

Laura Carlsen | Posted 07.30.2009 | World


Laura Carlsen

If the coup leaders were desperate when they decided to forcibly depose the elected president, they are even more desperate now. Stripped of its pretense of legality by universal repudiation and faced with a popular uprising, the coup has turned to more violent means.