Features

Late-night meetings between Asian and European
social movements produced the beginnings
of a manifesto for change – the 'Beijing Declaration'.

With capitalism crashing about our ears, now is the time to make a fairer future. We have asked writers, thinkers and activists from around the world to look at the opportunities presented by the current crises and to propose strategies for radical change.

How did we get here? David Ransom takes a global – and historical – look.

A new way not only to cook but to organize the whole food economy – Wayne Roberts stirs the pot.

Ray Burley is caught in the cost/price squeeze.

David R Montgomery on the one thing we can’t afford to run out of.

The increase in global food prices may have temporarily stalled but food is expected to remain at record price levels for the foreseeable future. Industrial agriculture’s chickens have come home to roost. But the price is being paid not by agribusiness and food retailers but by small farmers whose income remains low, and by the millions being pushed into malnutrition.

Chris Brazier makes the case for a green and fair diet.

The NI gives big agribusiness its say.

Across the world, popular protest has demanded adequate food and fair prices. Stephanie Boyd reports from Cuzco in Peru.

Agribusiness and industrial farming: 10; farmers and the famished: nil. A report from the campaign group GRAIN.

Richard Swift on the hard edge of hunger in a year of perpetual crisis. Action – a new diet for the world food system.

Groups, contacts and resources.

A canny village woman talks to NI.

Abdul Basir on the missing aid billions.

Afghan views on WHAM – a key strategy of the coalition forces’ war against the Taliban. Pictures from AINA’s gallery.

Drama is helping victims, writes Hadi Ogal.

Human rights activist Horia Mosadiq takes her Government to task.

The basics, conflict, aid & social equality in Afghanistan.

Sex, dating and the struggle for modernity.