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1.	Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really represent,: the very poor or the very rich?
	Author: George Monbiot	Date Written: 17 June 2013
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: Elevation
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http://www.monbiot.com/2013/06/17/elevation/
	Key Words: Bono, Monbiot, hunger, poor, charity, corporate control.
	Summary & Comment: This expose is well documented and revealing as only Monbiot can do. Bono (and Geldhof) have for many years been the humanitarian face of the rich and powerful, such as Gates and Montsanto and Tony Blair and George Bush by seeming to speak for the poor(without any mandate, and leaving them voiceless)) and promoting a charity approach to poverty and . . . [expand]
2.	Africa, let us help – just like in 1884
	Author: George Monbiot	Date Written: 10 June 2013
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: Guardian weekly
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http:// onbiot
	Key Words: Africa, land, seeds, food production, TNC’s,
	Summary & Comment: "From the Conference of Berlin to today’s G8, ’helping’ Africans looks suspiciously like grabbing their resources...One of the stated purposes of the G8 conference, hosted by David Cameron next week, is to save the people of Africa from starvation. To discharge this grave responsibility, the global powers have discovered, to their undoubted distres . . . [expand]
3.	Mozambique: Open Letter to Urgently Stop and Reflect on the ProSavana Programme
	Author: Mozambican civil society organisations	Date Written: 3 June 2013
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: 43 organisations, 72 individuals from 3 nations
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.grain.org/
	Key Words: Mozambique, Nacala, Savanna Program, land grabbing, peasants
	Summary & Comment: "Open Letter from Mozambican civil society organisations and movements to the presidents of Mozambique and Brazil and the Prime Minister of Japan Open Letter from Mozambican civil society organisations and movements to the presidents of Mozambique and Brazil and the Prime Minister of Japan. The ProSavana Programme, launched in April 2011, to promot . . . [expand]
4.	G8 "Hunger Summit" initiative rejected by African civil society
	Author: mariam mayet	Date Written: 3 June 2013
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: African Centre for BIosafety via PLANT
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.acbio.org.za
	Key Words: Hunger, summit, civil society, rejected,`modernize’. inappropriate,
	Summary & Comment: A Hunger Summit in London will decide in early June about a major campaign for more food to be produced in Africa. A good thing, but this Civil Society Statement from 57 groups found at www.acbio.org.za to the Summit fears that this will be achieved by funding for more land grabbing by states and corporations. "Green revolution technologies – . . . [expand]
5.	Corporate takeover of agriculture & land will increase hunger, groups claim
	Author: Mariam Mayet	Date Written: 6 March 2013
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: African Centre for Bio-Safety
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http:// http://www.acbio.org.za
	Key Words: Africa, agriculture, hunger, G8, multinationals, profit, farmers
	Summary & Comment: "As world leaders gather at the high profile ‘Hunger Summit’ in London this first week of June to endorse the spate of on-going initiatives to ‘modernise’ African agriculture, 57 farmer and civil society organisations from 37 countries across the continent have slammed these efforts as ‘a new wave of colonialism’. Harmonisation, free trade and . . . [expand]
6.	Guinea: Breastfeeding versus old wives tales
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 3 September 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Youth & Children	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Guinea, breastfeeding, children, infants, health
	Summary & Comment: Countless babies in Guinea are not given their first breast milk for hours - however long it takes a designated family member to bring water that is used to rinse special Koranic verses inscribed on a wooden tablet. This symbolic liquid, the first thing many babies ingest, is just one example of a custom believed to protect children but that can in . . . [expand]
7.	Ethiopia: Food security and the Meles’ legacy
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 22 August 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: food security, Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi
	Summary & Comment: During his two decades in power, Meles Zenawi committed himself to ending Ethiopia’s dependence on food aid. Meles’ regime is credited with having pioneered schemes designed to protect the poor such as the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), a Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme, and the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange. AA