Features

In Brazil, communities are forging their own solutions, reports Lucia Ortiz.

Danny Chivers surveys the options for the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, and asks if they can deliver climate justice.

Apocalyptic comedy from cartoonist Stephanie McMillan.

Activists Nnimmo Bassey and Mel Evans report from the frontline.

Patrick Bond foresees a rocky future for carbon trading.

Climate change is causing human suffering all over the world and it's the poorest of the poor who are going to be worst hit.

Sunita Narain looks to the environmentalism of the poor for answers.

Yang Ailun and David Spratt on why politicians are failing.

Social movements around the world are calling for urgent and radical action, broadly based on four main principles.

Stopping climate change will involve reversing some fundamental injustices, argues Jess Worth.

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.