Food Issues: Fair Trade
cultures of resistance IN ACTION supports efforts to make trade fair and to ensure that farmers and other producers in the global South receive just wages for their work.
North Korean Food Aid
In an effort to help North Korean farmers get beyond the famine that struck their country in the mid-1990s, the Lee & Gund Foundation has made a donation to Agglobe International to purchase and plant cotton and trees at four cooperative farms in North and South Hwanghae Province. Agglobe, a Minnesota-based 501c3, has secured a contract with the government of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, the first of its kind, to help rehabilitate and develop these four cooperative farms situated between Pyongyang and Kaesong.
Food Issues: Food & Sustainability
Until quite recently, farming had not changed much for thousands of years. Human and animal power was responsible for tilling the soil and harvesting crops, and nearly all food was produced in close proximity to where it was consumed. A number of developments in the twentieth century changed all that.
