Category: Frances Moore Lappe
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“Push-pull” agriculture in Kenya links to Nobel discussions
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Some news on the international ag production front. As background on the article, stem borer is obviously a kind of pest we are familiar with, but the Striga pest mentioned in the article is a parasitic weed with varied species that use their roots to steal nutrients from corn, sorghum, millet, and cowpeas (aka black-eyed…
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Frances Moore Lappe at TED
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Frances Moore Lappe, whose talk will conclude the 2010 Nobel Conference, delivered this TED talk.
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Frances Moore Lappe: World Hunger…Again and Again and Again
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In 1979, Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins published a little book called World Hunger: Ten Myths. Subsequently revised to include twelve myths, the book was reprinted countless times and is still a classic in the field of food and justice, a mainstay publication of the organization Food First. In the book, Lappe and Collins…