Editor's Note: Actually, Col. Muammar Qadaffi discovered and developed what these scientists are talking about a long time before. "The Great Man-Made River Project" (GMMRP) was conceived in the 1960s and built in the 80s. Col. Qadaffi made Libya self-sufficient in food and clean water. Buried underground deep in the... » read this article

Jean Ziegler[1], in his recently published book 'Massive Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger'[2], is denouncing the brutal arms the neoliberal masters of the world are using in order to annihilate resistance to their senseless attempt to run the world as they see fit. Jean Ziegler is a tireless fighter... » read this article

Status Report to Axis of Logic Contributors and Readers November 12, 2011 Our project to ship 9,000 litres of potable water to Haiti has been postponed a number of times over the past year. This has been a source of embarrassment for us and we apologize to all contributors for... » read this article

Editor's Note: We are grateful to GRAIN for their publication of this well-researched, exemplary analysis and report on the linkage between food and climate change. It tells us how global emissions, land-use, deforestation, agriculture, food processing, transport, packaging and retail sales and food waste are all inter-related. It also gives... » read this article

AGUA FOR HAITI Status Report to Axis of Logic Readers and Contributors. Please note that we have discontinued our request for contributions for our project, Agua for Haiti. We are still sitting on contributions for this project, deposited in a secure Axis of Logic bank account in Venezuela designated for... » read this article

BBC news coverage of the famine in Somalia has been saturating the airwaves and it's always like this whenever 'natural disasters' strike. Fundamentally it's little more than a fund-raising promo paid for with our taxes as endlessly repeated shots of emaciated babies and dying people serves no informative purpose except... » read this article

In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, people are forced to travel long distances and several hours a day collecting the water for cooking and drinking. In this week's episode of Nourishing the Planet TV, Nourishing the Planet research intern, Dan Kane, explains how one community in South Africa has developed... » read this article

Slow Food International continues to make progress on its ambitious pledge to create 1,000 vegetable gardens in every African community participating in its Terra Madre network. The aptly named “A Thousand Gardens in Africa” is now in its most active stage as coordinators fundraise for future gardens, inaugurate new gardens,... » read this article

Editorial Comment: To the Mayor of Orlando and the Orlando Cops: Axis of Logic asks, How low can you go? We offer a huge Thank You! to the wonderful people at Food Not Bombs in Orlando for the work you are doing and to all the activists who ask all... » read this article

  A new report written by some top scientists has stated – without caveats – that Monsanto’s Roundup brand herbicide causes birth defects.   Monsanto’s business model is based entirely on Roundup – including the genetically modified (GMO) crops that are dominant in the United States and, to a lesser... » read this article

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2011 - Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. That's according to a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Wallace H. Yokoyama. Yokoyama... » read this article

When I asked Alfredo, a dairy farmer and president of the Prolesa milk processing co-operative in Tachira state, what food sovereignty meant to him, he said: “Food sovereignty is not only about being able to produce enough food to feed ourselves, it also means getting to a point where we... » read this article

BUENOS AIRES - The governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are drafting laws to curb acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land. Despite slight differences between them, the proposed measures are generally fairly mild. None of these three member countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)... » read this article

The world's largest commodities trader is issuing a stock sale, and critics say the firm causes spikes in food prices. The rapid rise in prices for food, fuel and commodities has been disastrous for the world's poor, including Indonesian market vendor Lia Romi. But it's a bonanza for multinational trading... » read this article

New briefing: Food safety for whom? Corporate wealth versus people's health by GRAIN, May 2011 A new briefing by GRAIN examines how "food safety" is being used as a tool to increase corporate control over food and agriculture, and discusses what people can do and are doing about it. Below... » read this article

Dr. Don Huber did not seek fame when he quietly penned a confidential letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in January of this year, warning Vilsack of preliminary evidence of a microscopic organism that appears in high concentrations in genetically modified Roundup Ready corn and soybeans and "appears to... » read this article

Editor's Note: In times when corporate food prices are high and folks are hard pressed to make ends meet, Ellen LaConte suggests that we buy locally and grow our own! We introduce her lovely and informative article with some photos of urban gardens and their fruits to illustrate what she's teaching us! -... » read this article

Lies, hypocrisy and hidden agendas. This is what United States President Barack Obama did not dwell on when explaining his Libya doctrine to America and the world. The mind boggles with so many black holes engulfing this splendid little war that is not a war (a "time-limited, scope-limited military action",... » read this article

GRAIN, January 2011 What are the implications when one of China's most powerful agribusiness firms starts acquiring thousands of hectares of land in the Province of Rio Negro, Argentina for the production of soyabeans, wheat, and oilseed rape to ship back to China? What are the consequences for the local... » read this article

Editor's Note: This is a rare article co-authored by Simon Romero, NYT's favorite counter-revolutionary writers in South America that we can "digest". It's an interesting report about& quinoa, a valuable Bolivian natural resource exploited by foreign countries. It also underscores the effect of malnutrition caused by capitalism, imperialism and the... » read this article