In June 2012 the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) will take place in Rio de Janeiro, 20 years after the Earth Summit in 1992.

An article I recently received from Patricia Khan (How global investors make money out of hunger, by Horand Knaup, Michaela Schiessl and Anne Seith, published by Speigel Online) is an excellent treatment of the effects

The Israeli embassy in Cairo was in flames on 8 September. Furious demonstrators had broken down the protective wall surrounding the building and had set fire. The Israeli ambassador left the country as a precaution.

‘I buried my elder sister last week and the famine is about to claim another’ (Margaret Lodan pointing at her sister Makede Awoi’s grave, (Daily Nation Monday, 1 August, 2011)

INTRODUCTION