To avoid domestic food price spikes during COVID-19 lockdowns, major agricultural producers such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia temporarily capped exports of staple crops. The resulting market distortions underscored import-dependent countries’ vulnerabilities to food supply… [Read more]
Month: December 2020
The Bike Vote: Cycling as Climate Justice + Economic Development
As people around the world worked to stay safe through COVID-19 lockdowns, many took to two-wheels, biking around their cities. Demand for bikeshare programmes increased in cities across the globe from Wuhan, China to Chicago… [Read more]
Seed Patenting and the Threat to Food Security: The losers of global seed market consolidation
“A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab and can’t travel any way but sideways and backwards,” wrote American novelist Mark Twain. A patent formalises the right of the… [Read more]
Ireland’s Hypocritical Immigration Policy
In just three hundred years, more than ten million people emigrated from Ireland, a figure that doubles the nation’s current population. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, when Europe was marred by upheaval… [Read more]