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A SHORTER LEASH
Ideas for reforming the banking sector
Primary Commodity Prices and Global Food Security
Why farmers still struggle when food prices rise
Prices of agricultural inputs have risen much faster than food prices. This has created a world crisis for farming, a crisis of agricultural incomes, and an ageing farming population.
A new approach is needed, to create a food system which is economically as well as ecologically resilient and sustainable.
Read the new report from Green House! Click here.
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'A book packed with clear arguments alongside tables and statistics showing how global economic policies have created poverty on the most local levels' -- http://www.voteglobal.org.uk/issues/more (as of October 2010).
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About me...
I am a freelance consultant specialising in international trade and agricultural markets. I started my working life as a journalist reporting on the commodity and financial markets, and later became a lecturer in international business at Edinburgh University.
I have worked in more than 50 countries, including as a team leader of agricultural aid projects and a policy advisor of U.N. agencies, leading NGOs, fair-trade and trade union organisations. I am the author of numerous papers and articles on the themes mentioned.
Now I live in Brighton, England. One of my hobbies is photography, and I support Watford
FC. I was a candidate for the Green Party in the 2005
general election.
On this site you can find copies of my analytical papers, both ancient and modern. There is also a page of photographs taken in various places from France to Moscow to Turkmenistan to Zanzibar. Take a look round it!