DO WE REALLY WANT A GREEN REVOLUTION FOR AFRICA? Voices from Africa: African Farmers & Environmentalists Speak Out Against a New Green Revolution in Africa, issues a direct challenge to Western-led plans for a genetically engineered revolution in African agriculture, particularly the recent misguided philanthropic efforts of the Gates Foundation’s Alliance for a New Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and presents African resistance and solutions rooted in first-hand knowledge of what Africans need.

Figure out some small or big way to celebrate Earth Day and the glorious gift of God’s Creation. Acknowledge also that with this gift comes responsibility. So contact your members of Congress to call for a national strategy to protect the earth from its most dangerous threat: global climate change. Our values of justice and stewardship compel us to make addressing climate change a national priority. As Christians we are called to proclaim good news to those living in poverty, sharing in Christ’s work of compassion and love. Global climate change poses one of the greatest threats to the most vulnerable among us, especially those who are hungry. Experts warn that changing weather patterns, an increase in pests and disease, and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events resulting from climate change will lead to widespread crop failures, disruptions in food distribution systems and incite conflict as resources dwindle and people are forced to migrate.

Swords Into Plowshares has a great post about climate change and resource wars. There are only a few steps from climate change to war. They are unpredictable weather and harvest, environmental degradation, poverty, hunger and desperation. Those are the ingredients that fan the flames of conflict. Climate change must not be ignored or minimized. Not if we want to leave an inhabitable (for humans) planet for our descendents. See more connections between climate change and hunger.

U.S. working group on the food crisis urges G8 to reject failed green revolution policies for Africa

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Nanoparticles are completely unregulated! Which chocolates, beers and infant foods contain them? You’ll be surprised. Friends of the Earth let’s you know. Learn a little more or download the 66-page report.

My younger daughter, a sophomore in college, is spending the last days of her Spring Break with me in Northern California. While in route from her friend’s home in Reno, she starts texting me with requests: vanilla flavored coffee creamer,…

There is interest among our partners about Monsanto, especially in India where there has been enthusiastic resistance against their efforts to grow transgenic crops. Chetna is one such group, which is part of Joining Hands. Enjoy the film…

About two weeks ago my brother called to tell me that my mother was in the Emergency room and he was on his way there. I am the sibling that lives hundreds of miles away from home and he is…

No, that isn’t Peru or South Africa. It’s Sacramento, California. With America’s economy in freefall and its housing market in crisis, California’s state capital has become home to a tented city for the dispossessed. The prospects for developing countries and the billions of poor around the world are even worse. The United Nations predicts the food crisis will continue. Take Action Now! Tell the EPA to protect honey bees from a toxic pesticide. * Bee deaths linked to Bayer pesticides * Today? A buffet