Opinions
December Hunger Notes: Food insecurity and conflict, shifting the focus from feeding people to nourishing them, and more
December 16, 2016 By Lane Vanderslice Listen to Kimberly Flowers...
The elimination of violence against women
Globally, 47 per cent of murders of women are committed by an intimate partner or family member, compared to less than 6 per cent of murders of men. Women represent 55 per cent of victims of forced labour and 98 per cent of the victims of sexual exploitation. Globally, an estimated 200 million women...
The genocidal logic of South Sudan’s “gun class”
South Sudan’s civil war began in December 2013 with ethnic cleansing in the capital, Juba, committed by a government put in power by external brokering aimed at paving the way for the world’s newest nation. This South Sudan political experiment lasted two and a half years. Its bloody collapse ...
November Hunger Notes: It’s time for U.S. to lead in combating global malnutrition, avocados imperil Monarch butterflies, and more
November 19, 2016 By Lane Vanderslice Bill Frist, the former Republican Senate majority leader, says ...
It’s time for the U.S. to lead on combating global malnutrition
One single public health crisis accounts for nearly half (45%) of all child deaths under age five. It’s want of a most basic need: we still have 795 million people worldwide who suffer from various forms of malnutrition and undernourishment....
Poverty in unexpected places
Grinding poverty in the United States has long been synonymous with the Deep South, where low wages, poor health and diminished opportunity are more pervasive than in other parts of the country. But there are other...
October Hunger Notes: the conflict between corporate agriculture and campesinos, Syrian families and war, and more
October 31, 2016 By Lane Vanderslice Agroecology “Lite:” Cooptation and Resistance in the Glob...
Agroecology “Lite:” Cooptation and resistance in the global North
Because they are often developed and shared through extensive ...
Building a ‘good’ anthropocene from the bottom up
Over the last few years, I’ve gotten to know a determined cast of characters in academia aiming to identify paths to a goo...
Why did the Obamas fail to take on corporate agriculture?
Eight years ago this month, I published in these pages an open letter to the next president titled, “Farmer in Chief.” “It may surprise you to learn,” it began, “that among the issues that will occupy much of your tim...
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