by Sean Reilly | Jul 16, 2008
Members of the United Reformed Church have been asked to look more carefully at what they eat and where they buy, in order to help protect the income and way of life of British farmers. A move to support farmers and growers who, it has been said, are “often treated...
by Sean Reilly | May 11, 2008
While the food crisis in North Korea continues largely unnoticed in the wider world, due to the country’s isolation, a North American Anabaptist peace church is taking quiet steps to provide agricultural assistance. A grant of U$42,500 from the Church of the...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 23, 2008
Rich nations are the real beneficiaries of the “boom industry” of global corruption that is making the world’s poor even poorer – writes Kim Cain from Melbourne, Australia. That is the central finding of a new report, “From Corruption to...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 21, 2007
Click here to visit Oxfam’s charity gifts web site Charity Oxfam have brought out a new and bigger range of charity gifts this Christmas, following the success of last year’s animal gifts. Part of the scheme to send virtual gifts to Africa and the...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 7, 2007
The pursuit of cheap food coupled with the buying power of the big supermarkets is putting farming livelihoods at risk, the Church of England has told the Competition Commission. Making farmers pay for supermarkets’ own promotions is just one of a number of invisible...