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Hungry for Justice: How the World Food System Fails the Poor

Available in translation: Hambriento por justicia: Como el sistema mundial de alimentos falla a los pobres

Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)

Inequalities in the world's food system have been aggravated by recent developments to create the much talked-about food crisis. But what is behind the headlines? This new series delves into agrofuels, trade policy, corporate concentration, climate change, and rising demand to help sort out the real causes of the crisis and what needs to be done about it.

Articles from the Americas Policy Program:

The World Food Crisis: What's Behind it and What We Can Do About it (#13)
By Eric Holt-Giménez
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5611
Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/5627

A Quick, Easy Way to Lower World Food Prices (#12)
By David Kane
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5599
(Coming in Spanish)

Behind Latin America's Food Crisis (#11)
By Laura Carlsen
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5236
(Coming in Spanish)

Back to the Future: Limits of Economic Growth in Latin America (#10)
By Eduardo Gudynas
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5248
Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/5202

Haitian Food Riots Unnerving But Not Surprising (#9)
By Mark Schuller
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5186
(Coming in Spanish)

Two Chicken Stories: NAFTA's Real Winners and Losers (#8)
By Laura Carlsen
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5159
Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/5195

The Real Crisis of Argentina's Agricultural Sector (#7)
By Carlos A. Vicente
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5184
Also in Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/5116

Food Fights (#6)
By Laura Carlsen
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5124
Also in Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/5151

Fourteen Years of NAFTA and the Tortilla Crisis (#5)
By Ana de Ita
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4879
Also in Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/4721

The New Tortilla War (#4)
By Luis Hernández Navarro
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4205
Also in Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/4126

Bi-National Farmers' Meeting (#3)
By Laura Carlsen
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3629
Also in Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/3668

Agri-food Industry's Deadly Cycle Feeds Immigration (#2)
By Eric Holt-Gimenez
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3614
Also in Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/3611

Building a Future in the Mixteca (#1)
By Laura Carlsen
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3593
Spanish: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/3580

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Recommended citation:
"Hungry for Justice: How the World Food System Fails the Poor," Americas Policy Program (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, May 2008).

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Editor(s): Laura Carlsen
Production: Chellee Chase-Saiz

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