This category was created in Octobre 2013. It offers to those among the visitors of this site who wish so, to share their opinion or point of view on a topic of particular importance to them. Textes are presented in a chronological order.
If you want to contribute, please send your text to hungerexpl@gmail.com. We reserve the right to decide whether your text can be published here. Thank you.
NB : Views expressed in this section are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of hungerexplained.org.
April 2025
- How prices paid to small farmers can influence climate adaptation by Ruud Bronkhorst.
March 2025
- Agriculture for Economic Resilience During Political and Financial Crisis – The Case of Bangladesh by Saifullah Syed.
- Looming Tariffs Threaten Food Supplies by Matt Freeman
January 2025
- Food Systems Worsen Diets, Health by Jomo Kwame Sundaram
October 2024
- Another Nobel for Anglocentric Neoliberal Institutional Economics by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
July 2024
- More Poverty for the Poor by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
- Government Debt Is Symptom, Not Cause by Ndongo Samba Sylla and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
- Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
April 2024
- Carbon Markets Biased, Distorted, Undermined by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
February 2024
- ‘Developing countries’, a convenient and resilient fiction? by Materne Maetz.
January 2024
- Natural meat’ and futurist fantasies? by Maria Grazia Quieti.
December 2023
- Reflections on food, power, poverty and resilience in the face of global catastrophic risks by Geoff Tansey.
November 2023
- PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
August 2023
- IPCC – Should its mandate be broadened? (Science and policies) by Materne Maetz.
December 2022
- Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Hezri A Adnan and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
- AGRA Gets Make-Up, Not Make-Over by Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram. [read]
August 2022
- Neo-Colonial Currency Enables French Exploitation by Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
June 2022
- From vanguard to rearguard – When econo-mystics categorize reality as an uncertainty by Materne Maetz
- Sanctions Now Weapons of Mass Starvation by Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
May 2022
- Out of Africa: Rich continent, poor people by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
2021
November 2021
- Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
- The importance of cooperation and solidarity in fighting hunger and poverty by Daniel Gustafson.
- Will Glasgow Fix Broken Climate Finance Promises? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
- The possible relevance of Kenya’s experience to shaping aid to Africa by Andrew MacMillan.
September 2021
- A strange Summit by George-André Simon.
- Food Systems Summit’s Scientistic Threat by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
July 2021
- Who will decide what we will be eating in the future? by George-André Simon.
- Personal reflections on food summitry by Andrew MacMillan.
May 2021
- Struggle for the Future of Food by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
- Why the European Union should include Fair Prices in its policies by Ruud Bronkhorst.
April 2021
- Another False Start in Africa Sold with Green Revolution Myths by Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
February 2021
- Rethinking Food and Agriculture – New Ways Forward, a review by Andrew MacMillan.
2020
September 2020
- Combatting climate change in our daily life by Materne Maetz.
July 2020
- Condemned to utopia ? Climate and democracy: changing our paradigm to preserve the climate and our future by Materne Maetz.
May 2020
- Reflections on the Impact on Human Capital of Two Pandemics : COVID 19 around the world and HIV/AIDS in Kenya by Andrew MacMillan.
April 2020
- Green Counter-Revolution in Africa? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
March 2020
- Back to reality – Reflections around the COVID-19 crisis by Materne Maetz.
January 2020
- School Lunch Programmes for Progress by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Wan Manan Muda.
2019
December 2019
- Address Malnutrition, Not Just Food Security by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Wan Manan Muda and Tan Zhai Gen.
October 2019
- Beware High-Fat Diets by Wan Manan Muda and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
April 2019
- World Bank dispossessing rural poor by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
March 2019
- World Bank Financializing Development? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
February 2019
- Agribusiness Is the Problem, Not the Solution by Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
2018
December 2018
- Big Business Capturing UN SDG Agenda? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
May 2018
- Agricultural Trade Liberalization Undermined Food Security by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
2017
August 2017
- Fair Prices to achieve a Living Income by Ruud Bronkhorst.
- UN Analytical Leadership in Addressing Global Economic Challenges by José Antonio Ocampo and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
June 2017
- Unleashing the transformational power of informal institutions for rural development: an FAO perspective by Vito Cistulli.
- How to stop the global inequality machine by Jason Hickel.
May 2017
- Genetically Engineered Disappointments by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen.
- Growing Inequality under Global Capitalism by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
April 2017
- Gates Foundation’s rose-colored world view not supported by evidence by Martin Kirk and Jason Hickel.
- Catastrophic Antibiotic Threat from Food by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen.
March 2017
- Sweetened Research, Sugared Recommendations by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen.
January 2017
- Free Trade Agreements Promote Corporate Interests by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
2016
July 2016
- To eliminate sustainably hunger: the territorial option, by Vito Cistulli.
2015
December 2015
- Addressing Governance for increased effectiveness of FAO interventions at country level (with an example from Niger) by Klaus Urban and Dubravka Bojic.
July 2015
- Cash transfers and hunger eradication: Andrew MacMillan introduces two papers by Frédéric Dévé. [read: MacMillan_Introduction.pdf, Cash_transfer_hunger.pdf and One_billion.pdf].
February 2015
- Institutions of the small farmers: What next? by Shyam Khadka.
2014
December 2014
- Vietnam aspires to a sustainable agricultural transformation by Klaus Urban and Günther Feiler.
June 2014
- Hasn’t the time come for some brave new thinking on food management? by Andrew MacMillan.
2013
December 2013
- Reflections on Family Farming by Andrew MacMillan.
November 2013
- The Food System We Need by Andrew MacMillan.
October 2013
- Lampedusa, Westgate and Famine in the Horn of Africa – It’s All too Easy to Forget by Andrew MacMillan.