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This list of resources, compiled by Bhikkhu Bodhi, offers links to organizations working on hunger relief and related environmental issues. It is followed by links to the websites of contributors to the Fall 2014 issue of Inquiring Mind.
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/about-us#.VAovu_ldVv4
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) addresses the increasing challenge of global warming and declining food security on agricultural practices, policies and measures. See in particular the page “Big Facts on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security”:
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/fr/big-facts-climate-change-agriculture-and-food-security#.VAownfldVv4
Food First
http://foodfirst.org
The Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, employs research, education and action to end the injustices that cause hunger.
GRAIN
http://www.grain.org/
GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.
La Via Campesina
http://viacampesina.org/en/
La Via Campesina is the international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-sized farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity.
Oxfam America
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
Oxfam America regularly issues important reports on strategies to combat global hunger, most of which connect world hunger to climate change.
World Food Programme
http://www.wfp.org/
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded. Particularly informative is the page on hunger:
http://www.wfp.org/hunger
Oxfam
Growing a Better Future (2011)
http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/growing-a-better-future-010611-en.pdf
War on Want
Food Sovereignty Report (2011)
http://www.waronwant.org/overseas-work/17394-food-sovereignty-report
World Resources Institute
The Great Balancing Act (2013)
http://www.wri.org/publication/the-great-balancing-act
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The State of Food Insecurity in the World (2012)
http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3027e/i3027e.pdf
NYU School of Law International Human Rights Clinic
Nourishing Change: Fulfilling the Right to Food in the United States
http://chrgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/130527_Nourishing-Change.pdf
Post Carbon Institute
Food and Farming Transition—Toward a Post Carbon Food Future (2009)
http://www.postcarbon.org/publications/food-and-farming-transition/
United Nations
Final Report: The Transformative Potential of the Right to Food (2014)
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20140310_finalreport_en.pdf
Climate Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/issue/
The climate blog of Think Progress is a comprehensive progressive blog under the Center for American Progress. The administrator of Climate Progress is Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the Center and a fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science. In March 2009, Rolling Stone also named him one of “The 100 People Who Are Changing America,” calling him “America’s fiercest climate-change blogger.”
Climate Central
http://www.climatecentral.org/
Climate Central is an independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public.
Desmog Blog
http://www.desmogblog.com/
The aim of Desmog Blog is “to clear the PR pollution that clouds climate science.”
Earth Policy Institute
http://www.earth-policy.org/
Earth Policy is Lester Brown’s institute, “dedicated to planning a sustainable future and providing a roadmap of how to get from here to there.”
Inside Climate News
http://insideclimatenews.org/
Inside Climate News is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jennifer Russ: www.buddhistglobalrelief.org
David Loy: www.davidloy.org
Dharma Teachers Statement on Climate Change: www.oneearthsangha.org/articles/dharma-teachers-statement-on-climate-change
Wendy Johnson: www.gardeningatthedragonsgate.com
Joanna Macy: www.joannamacy.net
Nikiko Masumoto: www.masumoto.com
Raj Patel: www.rajpatel.org & www.generationfoodproject.org
John Robbins: www.johnrobbins.info
Jason DeCaires Taylor: http://www.underwatersculpture.com/
Margaret Trost: www.whatiffoundation.org
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