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February 2024

  1. ‘Developing countries’, a convenient and resilient fiction? by Materne Maetz.


January 2024

  1. ‘Natural meat’ and futurist fantasies? by Maria Grazia Quieti.


December 2023

  1. Reflections on food, power, poverty and resilience in the face of global catastrophic risks by Geoff Tansey.



November 2023

  1. PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.


August 2023

  1. IPCC - Should its mandate be broadened? (Science and policies) by Materne Maetz.


December 2022

  1. Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Hezri A Adnan and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

  2. AGRA Gets Make-Up, Not Make-Over by Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.


August 2022

  1. Neo-Colonial Currency Enables French Exploitation by Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.


June 2022

  1. From vanguard to rearguard - When econo-mystics categorize reality as an uncertainty by Materne Maetz

  2. Sanctions Now Weapons of Mass Starvation by Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram. 


May 2022

  1. Out of Africa: Rich continent, poor people by Jomo Kwame Sundaram. 

        [read: Out_of_Africa.pdf].


2021

November 2021

  1. Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.  

        [read: Cop-out.pdf].


  1. The importance of cooperation and solidarity in fighting hunger and poverty by Daniel Gustafson.

        [read: Cooperation.pdf].


  1. Will Glasgow Fix Broken Climate Finance Promises? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.

        [read: Glasgow_eng.pdf].


  1. The possible relevance of Kenya’s experience to shaping aid to Africa by Andrew MacMillan.

        [read: Kenya_aid.pdf].


September 2021

  1. A strange Summit by George-André Simon.

        [read: Strange_summit.pdf].


  1. Food Systems Summit’s Scientistic Threat by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

        [read: Scientistic_threat.pdf].


July 2021

  1. Who will decide what we will be eating in the future? by George-André Simon.

        [read: Pre-summit.pdf].


  1. Personal reflections on food summitry by Andrew MacMillan.

        [read: Summitry.pdf].


May 2021

  1. Struggle for the Future of Food by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

        [read: Struggle_for_future.pdf].


  1. Why the European Union should include Fair Prices in its policies by Ruud Bronkhorst.

        [read: EU_Fair_price.pdf].


April 2021

  1. Another False Start in Africa Sold with Green Revolution Myths by Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

        [read: False_start.pdf].


February 2021

  1. Rethinking Food and Agriculture – New Ways Forward, a review by Andrew MacMillan.

        [read: Rethinking_Food_and_Agriculture.pdf].


2020

Septembre 2020

  1. Combatting climate change in our daily life by Materne Maetz.

        [read: Climate_daily.pdf].


July 2020

  1. Condemned to utopia ? Climate and democracy: changing our paradigm to preserve the climate and our future by Materne Maetz.

        [read: Climate_and_democracy.pdf].


May 2020

  1. Reflections on the Impact on Human Capital of Two Pandemics : COVID 19 around the world and HIV/AIDS in Kenya by Andrew MacMillan.

        [read: Two_pandemics.pdf].


April 2020

  1. Green Counter-Revolution in Africa? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

        [read: Green_counterrevolution.pdf].


March 2020

  1. Back to reality - Reflections around the COVID-19 crisis by Materne Maetz.

        [read: Back_to_reality.pdf].


January 2020

  1. School Lunch Programmes for Progress by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Wan Manan Muda.

        [read: Schoolfeeding.pdf].


2019

December 2019

  1. Address Malnutrition, Not Just Food Security by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Wan Manan Muda and Tan Zhai Gen.

        [read: Address_malnutrition.pdf].


October 2019

  1. Beware High-Fat Diets by Wan Manan Muda and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

        [read: Beware_High_Fat_Diets.pdf].


April 2019

  1. World Bank dispossessing rural poor by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.

        [read: Dispossessing_rural_poor.pdf].


March 2019

  1. World Bank Financializing Development? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.

        [read: Financializing_Development.pdf].


February 2019

  1. Agribusiness Is the Problem, Not the Solution by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

        [read: Agribusiness_problem.pdf].


2018

December 2018

  1. Big Business Capturing UN SDG Agenda? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.

        [read: Big_business_UN.pdf].


May 2018

  1. Agricultural Trade Liberalization Undermined Food Security by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.

        [read: Trade_liberalization_and_food_security.pdf].


2017

August 2017

  1. Fair Prices to achieve a Living Income by Ruud Bronkhorst.

        [read: Fair_price.pdf].


August 2017

  1. UN Analytical Leadership in Addressing Global Economic Challenges by José Antonio Ocampo and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

        [read: UN.pdf].



June 2017

  1. Unleashing the transformational power of informal institutions for rural development: an FAO perspective by Vito Cistulli.

       [read: Institutions_En.pdf].


  1. How to stop the global inequality machine by Jason Hickel.

        [read: Machine.pdf].



May 2017

  1. Genetically Engineered Disappointments by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen.

        [read: GE_disappointments.pdf].


  1. Growing Inequality under Global Capitalism by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.

        [read: Growing_inequality.pdf].


April 2017

  1. Gates Foundation’s rose-colored world view not supported by evidence by Martin Kirk and Jason Hickel.

        [read: Rose_world.pdf].


  1. Catastrophic Antibiotic Threat from Food by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen.

        [read: Antibiotics.pdf].



March 2017

  1. Sweetened Research, Sugared Recommendations by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen.

        [read: Sugar.pdf].



January 2017

  1. Free Trade Agreements Promote Corporate Interests by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.

        [read: Free_trade.pdf]. 


2016


July 2016

  1. To eliminate sustainably hunger: the territorial option, by Vito Cistulli.

       [read: Hunger_and_Territorial_Option.pdf].



2015


December 2015

  1. Addressing Governance for increased effectiveness of FAO interventions at country level (with an example from Niger) by Klaus Urban and Dubravka Bojic.

        [read: Governance.pdf].


July 2015

  1. Cash transfers and hunger eradication: Andrew MacMillan introduces two papers by Frédéric Dévé.

        [read: MacMillan_Introduction.pdf, Cash_transfer_hunger.pdf and One_billion.pdf].


February 2015

  1. Institutions of the small farmers: What next? by Shyam Khadka.

       [read: Small_farmers_organization.pdf].



2014

December 2014

  1. Vietnam aspires to a sustainable agricultural transformation by Klaus Urban and Günther Feiler.

        [read: ARP_Vietnam.pdf].


June 2014

  1. Hasn’t the time come for some brave new thinking on food management? by Andrew MacMillan.

        [read: Some_brave_new_thinking_on_food_management.pdf].



2013

December 2013

  1. Reflections on Family Farming by Andrew MacMillan.

        [read: Refections_on_family_farming.pdf].


November 2013

  1. The Food System We Need by Andrew MacMillan.

        [read: The_Food_System_We_Need.pdf].


October 2013

  1. Lampedusa, Westgate and Famine in the Horn of Africa - It’s All too Easy to Forget by Andrew MacMillan.

        [read: Lampedusa.pdf].


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