Globalisation & Food
Food for the future
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Well worth a look (or a listen, if you download the podcast) is ABC’s Background Briefing from last week - entitled “Food for the Future”. Global Trade Watch contributed some statistics and opinions to the program.
Reporter Bronwyn Herbert uses the program to examine some of the issues around the global food trade, and the broader [...]
What’s Wrong with the WB & IMF? – Clinton says “We Blew It”
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Former US President Bill Clnton has delivered a stunning, stinging rebuke to the two institutions he effectively controlled for 8 years of his presidency, when, in a keynote address for World Food Day on October 23, he said:
We need the World Bank, we need the International Monetary Fund, we need all the big foundations, we [...]