The Health Worker Crisis

There is a 4.25 million person shortage of health care workers in the world. The Americas have 14% of the world's population but 37% of health care workers, while Africa, with 11% of the world's...
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Lenten Reflection Series on Food Justice: Part 6

During Lent, this series on food justice offers people of faith the opportunity to reflect on our responsibility to ensure that the food and agriculture system is based on moral and ethical...
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Lenten Reflection Series on Food Justice: Part 5

During Lent, this series on food justice offers people of faith the opportunity to reflect on our responsibility to ensure that the food and agriculture system is based on moral and ethical...
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Way of Torture, Way of the Cross: A Bible Study for Lent

This Bible Study is by Church Folks for a Better America. The introduction states, "This Bible Study aims to engage Christian adults in a consideration of the torture and abuse crisis from a...
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Our Sister Water/Nuestra Hermana Agua

This prayer, "Our Sister Water," or "Nuestra Hermana Agua," is from Franciscans International and is provided in both English and Spanish to celebrate World Water Day on March 22 or any other...
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Fowl Play: The poultry industry's central role in the bird flu

This timely report from GRAIN presents a fresh perspective on the bird flu story that challenges current assumptions and puts the focus back where it should be: on the transnational poultry...
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Six Months After Katrina: Who Was Left Behind Then and Who is Being Left Behind Now?

The Katrina evacuation was totally self-help. If you had the resources, a car, money and a place to go, you left. Over one million people evacuated - 80% to 90% of the population. No provisions...
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Food Security

Food and Agriculture Trade

Agriculture remained the most neuralgic question throughout the history of the GATT and the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, which finally produced agreement on the WTO. Indeed, it was only the...
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World Summit for Sustainable Development