The excellent ETC Group has just come up with a fine bit of social science that cuts through the guff of the recent FAO Food Summit in Rome.

As part of their 'translator' series, in which they parse the meaning of UN documents for the general public, they've come out with their latest report, Another "Failure-as-usual" Food Summit.

Alongside the fine analysis of the substance of the summit document, they've compared and contrasted the final declarations of the Food Summits in 1996, 2002, and 2008. The findings are striking:

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Posted on 30 June, 2008 - 15:57

Esther Vivas sent in this fine analysis of the FAO's summit in Rome. More below the fold. ... read more »

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Posted on 19 June, 2008 - 17:47

So, the FAO Summit is over. I didn't think to write in advance that it'd be a whitewash because, well, it was so very obviously going to be.

The US went in with three big ideas - food aid, vague promises of investment in agriculture, and biotechnology. ... read more »

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Posted on 5 June, 2008 - 22:41