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Patel: Perspectives 2012 Series - Episode 1
Video, July, 17 2012
Raj Patel
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Interview on international food markets and their role in propagating inequities in food access and distribution, as well as ongoing popular resistance to these market forces
Patel: Hunger Management
Znet Article, July, 16 2011
Raj Patel
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The global recession has lowered incomes, raised food prices and pushed the number of hungry people to one billion
Patel: Can the World Feed 10 Billion People? Yes, But Social Change Needed
Znet Article, May, 20 2011
Raj Patel
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If you arrive in Malawi in March, growing food seems like a fool’s game
Patel: No Land! No House! No Vote!
Znet Article, April, 10 2011
Raj Patel
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Before the Soccer World Cup last year, I was asked to write a foreword to an anthology of life stories told by South African pavement dwellers, living on Symphony Way, near Cape Town.
Patel: That witch, inflation, hurts us more without protection
Znet Article, January, 21 2011
Raj Patel
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Anyone in Britain alarmed by rising inflation should look to an Indian villager for understanding about the latest worry in the global economy.
Patel: Mozambique’s Food Riots Are the True Face of Global Warming
Znet Article, September, 12 2010
Raj Patel
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Thirteen people died and hundreds were wounded last week in the African nation of Mozambique when police cracked down on a three-day protest over a 30 percent hike in the price of bread.
Patel: Food Rebellions: Mozambicans Know Which Way the Wind Blows
Znet Article, September, 05 2010
Raj Patel
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If you want to know how most of us will experience climate change in the twenty first century, don't look to the skies. The food rebellions in Mozambique are living augury.
Patel: The Big Gulf Bailout
Znet Article, August, 12 2010
Raj Patel
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What are the real costs of the Gulf Oil spill? BP's 32 billion estimate doesn't come anywhere close.
Patel: The Value of Nothing
Video, June, 29 2010
Raj Patel
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An intro to Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing
Patel: G20: Illegitimate, Incompetent and Out of Control
Znet Article, June, 27 2010
Raj Patel
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You can’t formulate a sensible international economic policy without the basics: helicopters, snipers, riot police, attack dogs, tanks and miles of chain link fence. Wherever ministers of finance gather, the essential accessories for crowd control...
Patel: Value, Price, and Profit
Audio, March, 30 2010
Raj Patel
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Radical academic Raj Patel believes much can be learned from thinkers like Karl Marx, Karl Polanyi, and even Adam Smith about value, price, and the market.
Patel: How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy
Znet Article, November, 30 2009
Raj Patel
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An excerpt from Raj Patel's new book, The Value of Nothing (Picador, 2010).
Patel: Ending Africa's Hunger
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Raj Patel
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More than a billion people eat fewer than 1,900 calories per day. The majority of them work in agriculture, about 60 percent are women or girls, and most are in rural Africa and Asia. Ending their hunger is one of the few unimpeachably noble tasks...
Patel: Ending Africa's Hunger
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Raj Patel
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More than a billion people eat fewer than 1,900 calories per day. The majority of them work in agriculture, about 60 percent are women or girls, and most are in rural Africa and Asia. Ending their hunger is one of the few unimpeachably noble tasks...
Patel: Fat Chance
Znet Article, May, 20 2008
Raj Patel
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Modern capitalism’s powerful spell means we cannot accept research into world food policy without turning it into an attack on the overweight.
Patel: How World Bank policies led to famine in Haiti
Video, April, 22 2008
Raj Patel
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Food riots in Haiti caused the deaths of five people last week, including a UN peacekeeper, and forced the country's prime minister out of office.
Patel: Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the hidden battle for the World Food System
Book, April, 20 2008
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Patel: Democracy and its Simulacra
Znet Article, December, 17 2004
Raj Patel
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Democracy is powerful stuff. Its weapons - dissent, voice, inclusion, occupation - are what distinguish it from the feather dusters of 'participation' and 'dialogue'. At the World Forum on Agrarian Reform, rural-based social movements from around ...
Patel: Faulty Shades Of Green
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Raj Patel
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I - An Environmental Looking Glass The world's environmentalists are bracing themselves for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg later this year. Among the tree-huggers, guerrilla gardeners, and jaded policy wonks,...
Patel: NEO-THATCHERITE ENGLISH PREMIER AN APPALLING DIPLOMAT
Znet Article, February, 09 2002
Raj Patel
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By now we are extremely familiar with the sigh of world leaders trying to turn the spotlight away from their domestic inadequacies by embarking on major new foreign policy initiatives. It seems to have been working for George W. ...
