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Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's latest is an animated docudrama in which the director and his friends play key roles deciphering a dream that is connected to Israel's war with Lebanon.

Photographer Ernesto Fernandez recalls the dawn of a new age as Cuba celebrates the 50th anniversary of its revolution.

In the damp, dark winter, Maria Golia finds cold comfort in a pharmacy queue.

Made in tandem with the Albanian accordionist / composer Dasho Kurti, the 11 songs on Deserted Villages offer a broad palate, and not all of it mournful.

Certainly some of these songs may have once been heard over fields and cradles rather than concert halls, but their translation from private to public music is a beautiful one.

The UN Finance for Development conference is set to be a betrayal of historic proportions.

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.