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Mon Mar 29, 2010 at 10:19:57 AM EDT
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Cross-posted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
 The highways in southern Africa are filled with trucks carrying food aid across the continent. In the past, much of the maize, rice, soy, and other foods loaded onto these trucks came not from African farmers, but from the United States. And while these shipments provided much needed calories to people in need, they also disrupted national and local markets by lowering prices for locally grown food.
But today, more and more of the crops providing food aid come from African farmers who are selling directly to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) through local procurement policies. In Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and several other nations in sub-Saharan Africa (as well as in Asia and Latin America), WFP is not only buying locally, but helping small farmers gain the skills necessary to be part of the global market.
The WFP's Progress for Profit (P4P) program, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and the Belgian government, is working with the private sector, governments, and NGOs to provide an incentive for farmers to improve their crop management skills and produce high-quality food, create a market for surplus crops from small and low-income farmers, and promote locally processing and packaging of products.
In Zambia, WFP buys food directly from the Zambia Agricultural Commodity Exchange while remaining "invisible," says Felix Edwards of the Zambia P4P Program. This way, WFP Zambia doesn't distort prices and helps create an alternative market for farmers. WFP also works through its partners, including USAID's PROFIT program, to help farmers and farmer associations meet the quality standards required by the Exchange. As a result, they are preparing Zambian farmers to provide high-quality food aid not only to programs and consumers in their own country, but also potentially to growing regional and international markets.
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 14:33:46 PM EST
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This morning, Rep. Luis Gutierrez posted this response to the President's State of the Union address last night:
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Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 15:47:45 PM EDT
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 THE FEBRUARY ICE RAIDS IN BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON surprised many, coming as they did after President Obama was elected. The remnant of Bush-Chertoff style tactics were a brand new shock again, as a mass of federal agents surrounded a car engine repair shop and scooped many workers into buses waiting in the back.
Shortly after, Janet Napolitano confessed that the raid had taken even her by surprise, that she was not consulted, and that she would order a review. Speaker Pelosi was soon quoted speaking out against the devastating effects our "enforcement" tactics have been having on communities.
Did the focus have an effect on how this raid played out in the aftermath?
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 11:52:53 AM EDT
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by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger The dialogue on immigration has, historically, been contentious and cyclical. There are times when hysteria peaks, and rational thought struggles to enter the national dialogue. There are also moments of truth. This week, independent media debunked many myths about the undocumented and made the case for the positive impact of immigrants in the US, including the positive effect of legalizing the undocumented on the economy and how citizens are holding elected representatives accountable for votes against pro-immigrant measures.
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Tue Mar 24, 2009 at 13:39:32 PM EDT
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Originally Posted on Citizen Orange.
I'm happily returning from my blogging hiatus this week to make a common-sense argument: passing the DREAM Act is not only the right thing to do, but in these trying economic times it is also the sensible thing to do.
I am such a passionate advocate for the DREAM Act that I often forget there are people in this world that don't know what the DREAM Act is.
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Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 15:13:52 PM EDT
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Originally posted on Citizen Orange.
I hope everyone enjoys Halloween, today. As a child in Guatemala there were only a few places that I could celebrate Halloween. We'd usually have to go to the Gringo, or "Americanized", walled in colonias to go trick or treating. If not you'd run the risk of ringing the doorbell of a religious family that believed celebrating Halloween was the equivalent of devil worship. How do you say trick or treat in Spanish? This is what we used in Guatemala:
Tricko! Tricko! Halloween!
Dame dulces para mi!
(Give me candy for me!)
For the first time, I'm heading out to Salem, Massachusetts, for Halloween, tonight. I imagine that it's going to be a completely different experience than the one I'm used to in Guatemala.
Tangentially, I typed in "immigration" and "halloween" into Google, and what I came up with is a not so happy reminder of Halloween. It brought up the Julie Myers controversy.
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 at 16:41:22 PM EDT
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The nativist hate-o-sphere is at it again. After blaming legal immigrants for causing global warming, now illegal immigrants are facing the brunts of their latest accusation. What is it? Why, don't you know, those migrant workers, low-income wage-earners, illegals in the military, undocumented students struggling to afford college, caused the financial collapse of Wall Street, Main Street, all streets!! Now we need a $700 billion dollar bailout for them! See what Quaker at DreamActivist has to say about this. (Psssst, while the nation is conveniently distracted, lets also give DHS $4billion for overbudgeting on old technology) Tancredo ran in the Republican presidential primaries on a platform devoted strongly against illegal immigrants (a noun, verb and 'illegal alien'). He garned less than 1% of the vote but that has not stopped him from obsessing over those illegals and running around to 'catch them.' We cannot blame him though; forget 'illegal aliens', ethnic diversity is a sight for sore-eyes in his state so of course he is longing for rarity. So, despite the fact that the last movie flopped, illegal aliens are responsible for the mortgage crisis, booms nativist Tom Tancredo, in a new theatrical sequel. Viewer discretion is advised. Strongly advised.
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Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 10:15:54 AM EDT
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( - promoted by yave begnet)
 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE article that yesterday mentioned UMX and the dialogue online about immigration provides a model of balance in reporting.
Well, perhaps not total balance. In fact, the article gives ALI-PAC, "a conservative group whose Web campaign helped derail Immigration reform legislation in Congress last year by prompting thousands of faxes, e-mails and phone calls to legislators" the middle word, the last word, the power to frame the debate online, and more than one direct quote. "Derailing Immigration reform legislation." I'm going to let that soak in for a second. Remember, they are proud of doing this.
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Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 18:33:02 PM EDT
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(An interesting suggestion on a Democratic strategy to re-frame immigration in the coming election cycle that addresses the root causes of both increased migration and the growing discontent and "bitterness" among working-class voters. - promoted by Duke)
Corn is the one thing America can produce cheaper than Mexico can. Illegal immigration exploded in the wake of NAFTA, and corn is largely to blame for our immigration problem. Mexicans eat a lot of corn, and they used to support a lot of maize farmers. NAFTA changed that. A Democratic response to NAFTA can energize unions, appeal to Latino voters concerned about loved ones across the border by promising to improve the Mexican economy.
Southwestern moderates view McCain favorably on immigration, but not his party base. By going on the offensive with immigration in IN and NC Dems can attack the Republican base in new swing states, build bridges between unions and Latinos, and frame the immigration debate for the fall.
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