Nine Years After Bahrain’s Uprising, Its Human Rights Crisis Has Only Worsened
February 24, 2020 | Despite well documented abuses in the kingdom, the spigot of aid and arms from the U.S. and U.K. remains open.
Articles by Fred Abrahams
From Schools to Shelters in Iraq
September 9, 2014 | Yazidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan now sleep in classrooms, hallways, and the courtyards of facilities intended for children’s education. What happens when school starts?
Land ‘investment’ deals in Africa: Say ‘no way!’
July 12, 2011 | Land investments - the purchase or lease of vast tracts of land from mostly poor, developing countries by wealthier food-insecure nations and private investors for the production and export of food and agrofuel crops - have become a very fast-paced international phenomenon.
Postcard from…Albania
December 10, 2010 | It's the 20-year anniversary of the beginning of the end of Europe's last communist state.
G8 Summit: Feed the Hungry or Fuel Hunger?
July 8, 2009 | The food crisis is still with us in the form of impoverished farmers and impoverished analysis.
Food and Trade: Dialogue
February 20, 2007 | FPIF asked Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute and Gawain Kripke of Oxfam whether international trade is good for agriculture or not. Mittal sees free trade as hazardous to farmers and farming. Kripke sees a role for trade in sustainable development. While they agree on many points, here they also take issue with each other's positions.
Free Trade Doesn’t Help Agriculture
February 20, 2007 | FPIF asked Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute and Gawain Kripke of Oxfam whether international trade is good for agriculture or not. Mittal sees free trade as hazardous to farmers and farming. Kripke sees a role for trade in sustainable development. While they agree on many points, here they also take issue with each other's positions.
Kosovos Tricky Waltz
February 7, 2007 | Kosovo is on its way to becoming the latest piece of former Yugoslavia to achieve nationhood. But a bumpy road lies ahead.
Free Market Famine
October 26, 2006 | Niger is the poorest country in the world. Neither humanitarian aid nor free-market reforms prevented its 2005 food crisis.