Local And Just

In previous articles I spoke about the great divide in India between people with wealth and those without.  India, I wrote, is a country where disparities are made obvious – where the rich and poor are often situated in close proximity to each other, making the juxtaposition just that much more jarring. The Hindi caste [...]

After visiting several rural communities in India and Bangladesh, it became abundantly clear that access to land is a fundamentally important issue in addressing hunger.  In the communities that we visited people largely were employed as share croppers or agricultural day labourers, both of which were positions through which one could often not adequately support [...]

One fairly regularly hears about people campaigning for, or discussing the idea of, the ‘right to food.’  But what does that actually mean for people who are hungry?  Does it improve lives or merely become a piece of governmental phraseology? India provides one example of how the right to food has been used as a [...]

Over the next three weeks I will be traveling across the world to examine food justice issues in India and Bangladesh.  Along with several other participants from across Canada who come from a variety of backgrounds, I will have the opportunity to visit several projects associated with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.  The theme of the [...]