Imagine a country where ideologues bent on land reform turn agriculture into the plaything of the world’s richest investors, and poor local…

Raj Patel is a writer, activist, and academic, focusing on the global food system and food justice. He is currently a visiting…

Here’s something I wrote with the splendid Martin Crook of the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau. The synopsis is below. Click here for the full report. …

How will we eat in the future? By 2100, the world’s population is projected to reach ten billion. The highest levels of…

The world’s demographers increased their estimates of the world’s population through the coming century. We are now on track to hit 10 billion…

Before the Soccer World Cup last year, I was asked to write a foreword to an anthology of life stories told by…

Anyone in Britain alarmed by rising inflation should look to an Indian villager for understanding about the latest worry in the global…

SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Thirteen people died and hundreds were wounded last week in the African nation of Mozambique when police cracked down…

It has been a summer of record temperatures – Japan had its hottest summer on record.[1] Same with South Florida and New…

We’re almost at the happily-ever-after stage of the gulf oil-spill story. The well has been killed, the beaches are being scrubbed and…