One of the premises of this blog is that there's a deep connection between food and poverty. So it's not too much of a tangent to start talking about poverty directly.

The question asked by my friend Dan Moshenberg, who's guest blogging with this wee article, is this: how are the poorest treated in the world's richest country and the world's most impoverished? The answer: almost the exactly same.

Here's his striking analysis, comparing the Zimbabwean Operation Murambatsvina with Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans three years ago... ... read more »

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Posted on 28 August, 2008 - 20:37

There’s a Steve Martin line: ‘some people have a way with words, and other people … no have way’. When it comes to speeches, I no have way, so at the Stuffed and Starved book launch on Thursday, I jotted down these few notes. I'm posting them up here for the twin reasons that they make a sound point about race and food in Britain, and that it'd make my parents happy. ... read more »

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Posted on 2 September, 2007 - 22:03

It's absurd and romantic to think that farmers have virtue as a birthright. This may seem an odd thing to say given that Stuffed and Starved is often a hymn to rural struggles. But it's important to remember that not all farmers are the same, and that very little soil is bloodless. Consider recent events in South Africa.

In October this year, an NGO called "Women in Agriculture and Rural Development" (Ward), set up by the South African government, announced in this article that that

"Three-hundred-and-fifty years ago the land was taken by white people. Now that we have a chance we must use it," said one land activist. "We want the land back." ... read more »

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Posted on 13 December, 2006 - 02:56