One of the best organisations of its kind anywhere on the planet, Focus on the Global South manages to straddle the difficult worlds of providing analytical rigour, and concrete support to mass-based social movements. According to its website

Focus’s overall goals are to: dismantle oppressive economic and political structures and institutions; to create liberating structures and institutions; to promote demilitarisation and peace-building, instead of conflict. These three goals are brought together in the paradigm of deglobalisation. This term describes the transformation of the global economy from one centred around the needs of transnational corporations to one that focuses on the needs of people, communities and nations and in which the capacities of local and national economies are strengthened. ... read more »

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Posted on 12 January, 2007 - 20:40

The Agricultural Policy Analysis Center of the University of Tennessee has been a consistent home of heterodox thinking about the future of American farming. Daryll Ray's column is always worth a look, and for those unphased by economics, this is a rewarding and rich site. Visit it at
http://www.agpolicy.org/

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Posted on 29 November, 2006 - 01:57