Never forget: Much of external funding (deceptively called ‘foreign aid’) is spent on goods and expertise imported from the North -External funders are good at throwing products at development problems,…
1. Government and corporate policies (that all to often are indistinguishable) are important factors in determining development and indeed human rights (HR) policy. Any analysis that ignores the impact of…
As used today, the Food Systems concept is a non-political attempt to make issues technical -The UN and external funders embarked in the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement have ended…
It is not enough to react to hunger; we need to prevent it (Nothing new here) -The generation of those who are born today does not wait; their future potential…
One cannot carry out work in the name of ethical principles without a critique of politics (J. B. Foster, Monthly Review) 1. Ethics is unavoidable, because it defines what it…
Participation and representation-with-a-binding-character are part of a human right encompassing the right to voice and influence -Participation has been called ‘the right of rights’, because it allows members of society…
#: The only ‘free’ cheese is in the mousetrap. -In many ways, the problems we see around us today are related to past (market-based?) attempts to foster (a certain) development…
-The abolitionist movement in the US started with some Quakers saying that slavery was immoral. The movement then grew, and thus things changed. (Isabel Allende)
-Human rights start rather than end with the fulfillment of the right to eat… Undernourished people cannot wait around for the slow-moving process of agricultural modernization -Marginal changes of any…
1. Too bad: We have been deeply intimidated by the magnitude of the human rights (HR) problem. Is it that we have imprisoned ourselves within our own skepticism, resignation and…