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Coming together to save earth could be the best project ever undertaken by the human species
Blog / 25th August 2022Change will come, and can only come from committed people mobilizing in common cause as a powerful social movement, writes David Korten.
Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax
News / 25th August 2022Companies at the centre of the global grain trade have enjoyed a record bonanza amid soring food prices around the world, raising concerns of profiteering and speculation in global food markets that could put staples beyond the reach of the poorest.
U.N. humanitarian agencies face record funding gap this year
News / 15th August 2022U.N. humanitarian projects face a record funding gap this year, with only a third of the required $48.7 billion secured so far as global needs outpace pledges.
It’s time we all come together to address the global food crisis
Blog / 15th August 2022Millions of lives are at stake and the world’s most vulnerable do not have the luxury of time, write Abdulla Shahid and Gabriel Ferrero de Loma-Osorio.
How the Treasury Department could prevent mass starvation with no cost to the taxpayers
Blog / 5th August 2022As hunger threatens millions, the Biden administration should give its OK for the IMF to distribute financial backing to the world’s poorest countries. By Mark Weisbrot.
UN Nuclear Review: A prime time to stop the new arms race
Blog / 5th August 2022The real solution to the threat of nuclear war is in plain sight, but still the powerful weapons makers and war profiteers refuse to yield. By Marcy Winogra and Medea Benjamin for Common Dreams.
Horn of Africa faces most ‘catastrophic’ food insecurity in decades, warns WHO
News / 5th August 2022More than 37 million people are facing acute hunger, with approximately seven million children under the age of five acutely malnourished in the region.
‘Earth Overshoot Day’ comes earlier every year
News / 3rd August 2022From today onwards, humanity is living on credit. Every year, Overshoot Day – the date by which humanity has consumed all the resources that Earth can sustainably produce in one year – arrives earlier.
Envisioning a better world without the WTO
Report / 30th July 2022The outcome of the 12th Ministerial Meeting (MC12) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a big win for rich countries, but a massive defeat for the global South, explains a dossier by Focus on the Global South.
WTO deal on vaccine patents decried as a 'sham' dictated by rich nations, big pharma
News / 26th July 2022The World Trade Organization's 12th Ministerial Conference ended with an agreement on patent rights that campaigners said would do virtually nothing to address vast global inequities in coronavirus vaccine and treatment access.