Features

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.

The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change

How to lose friends and alienate people, by Kabul defence journalist, Khabaryal.

And the West acting like it knows best... again. Isn’t it time we listened to Afghans, asks Vanessa Baird?

Popular rebellion has often accompanied oppressive taxation. Almost all the protests were against taxes that ignored the ability to pay. Here are just a few examples.