Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger
Colin todhunter It’s a zero-sum situation. The rich are robbing the poor to swell their coffers – and their bellies. In April 2022, Oxfam reported a terrifying prospect of more than a...
An Inconvenient Truth: The Peasant Food Web Feeds the World
Colin Todhunter In October 2020, CropLife International said that its new strategic partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) would contribute to sustainable food systems. It...
Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food
Colin Todhunter We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined...
Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy & Minimum Support Price
Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in...
Viral Inequality: From Jeff Bezos to the struggle of Indian Farmers
The world’s 10 richest billionaires have collectively seen their wealth increase by $540bn over this period. In September 2020, Jeff Bezos could have paid all 876,000 Amazon employees a...
Farmers’ Protests Reflect Existential Crisis of Indian Agriculture
Colin Todhunter With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet but is plagued by farmer suicides, child malnourishment, growing...
Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism
Colin Todhunter In the above short video on the empirediaries.com YouTube channel, a protesting farmer camped near Delhi says that during lockdown and times of crisis farmers are treated...
Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’
Colin Todhunter The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of rich and powerful land speculators and agribusiness corporations. Smallholder farmers...
Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report...
Life Expectancy Falters in the UK
Colin Todhunter A special report in the Observer newspaper in the UK on 23 June 2019 asked the question: Why is life expectancy faltering? The piece noted that for...
