Local And Just

Stats rarely tell the whole story.  But for some, me in particular, they can be an interesting way of telling at least a part of the story.  And when there are websites that will generate these stats for you, it’s even better.  This is the story of what I learned from Google Trends, a website [...]

On November 15th, ten University of Manitoba students from a variety of faculties headed off campus to explore food justice in action. It was the second annual “NGO Crawl”, a joint event organized by the World W.I.S.E. Resource Centre and the Global Political Economy Students Association. This year, the NGO Crawl visited four non-government organizations [...]

What do community gardens in northern Manitoba, direct farm marketing, and conservation farming in rural Zimbabwe have in common?  They are all approaches to achieving food justice…and were all featured at a World Food Day event put on by Canadian Foodgrains Bank and the Manitoba Alternative Food Research Alliance. We wanted the event to showcase [...]

High finance really intrigues me. Shocking, I know, because who wants to talk about financial instruments? Futures, swaps, derivatives, blah, and blah. While the nature of high finance is obscure, their effects on the real world are painstakingly real. This fact is demonstrated when food is traded as a commodity, like any other piece of [...]

Spring warmth. Strokes worn cheek. Leaves bud. Purple-green. People. Many. Languid on porches. Conversations murmur. Rippling. Past me.

This post is a copy of the Universtiy of Manitoba Press release posted at www.umanitoba.ca on Thursday, February 4, 2010 2:10 PM Securing adequate food is something most of us take for granted. We may be more familiar with the struggle to keep from overindulging than the struggle for access. But the reality is more than [...]