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The New Colonialism: Britain's scramble for Africa's energy and mineral resources
The report reveals the degree to which British companies now control Africa’s key mineral resources, notably gold, platinum, diamonds, copper, oil, gas and coal.
The Hunger Games
This report reveals how DFID has been using hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money with the express purpose of extending the power of agribusiness over the production of food, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Food Sovereignty report
The report contrasts the UK government’s preferred approach of ‘food security’, based on free markets supplemented by aid, with the positive alternative of food sovereignty, which returns control over the food system to farmers.
Join the food sovereignty revolution
The global food system is in crisis. Decisions about what is produced, what is consumed and who has access to food are defined by multinational corporations that control the entire food chain.
Up Front: Food Sovereignty
In 2009, for the first time in human history, over a billion people were officially classified as living in hunger.
Food Sovereignty positioning paper
Food Sovereignty:Taking back control of our food system A War on Want position paper Image
A Bitter Cup
Although the tea industry is booming and UK supermarkets are cashing in, workers in India and Keny are harassed, poorly paid and denied trade union rights on tea plantations and in tea packing factories.
Up Front: Food Justice
For over a billion people across the developing world, farming is a way of life, providing food, income and a sense of community rooted in generations of tradition. Yet in recent years this way of life is being threatened by unfair trade rules and the rise o...
Suur druiwe
Ongeag die prestasies en die belangrikheid van Suid-Afrikaanse wyn vir die ekonomie, het die<br />omstandighede vir diegene wat in die wynindustrie werk, vinnig agteruitgegaan.