{"id":6320,"date":"2009-03-12T09:29:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2009-03-12T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T16:29:45","slug":"vandana-shiva-speaks-out-on-the-global-food-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/03\/12\/vandana-shiva-speaks-out-on-the-global-food-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandana Shiva Speaks Out on the Global Food Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest031209\/2009_03_12_uprising.mp3\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.sovereignmindradio.com\/main\/images\/stories\/Dr.-Vandana-Shiva.jpg\" alt=\"vandana shiva\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Obama met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon earlier this week to discuss the global food crisis and the &#8220;potential threat&#8221; to food supplies if the economic crisis worsens. Last year there was much discussion about escalating food prices that left millions more people hungry. Now, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned of the perverse effect of falling prices of wheat, corn, and rice resulting in lower rates of investment in agriculture, which also leaves millions more hungry. The fact the food prices are dominated by the volatility of financial markets is a problem that many critics have pointed to. One such critic is internationally renowned physicist, environmental activist and author Vandana Shiva, who recently addressed an audience of students and professors at the University of Southern California. Her most recent books include &#8220;Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace,&#8221; and &#8220;Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Vandana Shiva, author of &#8220;Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Global Voices for Justice for recording this event. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesforjustice.org\">globalvoicesforjustice.org<\/a> or call 310.283.0885.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon earlier this week to discuss the global food crisis and the &#8220;potential threat&#8221; to food supplies if the economic crisis worsens. Last year there was much discussion about escalating food prices that left millions more people hungry. Now, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}