Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security

Transnational agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they seek to profit more from innovations in food production, processing, and distribution.

Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security | Inter Press Service

The Real Cost of Debt

The Real Cost of Debt is a multimedia storytelling project which focuses on the human impacts of the debt crisis. It uncovers the stories behind the debt data through the words and experiences of people directly affected in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Real Cost of Debt – Eurodad

The Job Apocalypse is already happening

How can the stock market be rising to record levels while jobs and wages are going nowhere, most Americans are paying higher prices for just about everything, and consumer sentiment is in the dumps?

The AI Job Apocalypse Is Already Happening

100 million more people access social protection through ILO support

Over the past decade, the International Labour Organization has helped countries expand social protection through its Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All.

100 million more people access social protection through ILO support | International Labour Organization

The Case for Blaming Billionaires

   

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“I can’t help but roll my eyes when people bash the rich as a class, blaming them for nearly everything that’s wrong in U.S. society,” IP Editor-in-Chief David Callahan recently wrote in a column, “What ‘Blame the Billionaires’ Misses.” He points to Texas Democrat James Talarico, who recently said that the “only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.”

Chuck Collins on the case for blaming billionaires | Inside Philanthropy

Where are the profits of the war going?

With the rise in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies surge—and a significant share ends up funneled through tax havens. But it’s not too late to tax war profiteers effectively.

Where are the profits of the war going ?

Escaping the IMF Austerity Trap

There is ample research showing that growth-oriented strategies accompanied by redistribution policies are the most promising path to recovery across the Global South. Rather than imposing cookie-cutter austerity programs, the International Monetary Fund should be following the evidence.

Escaping the IMF Austerity Trap by Kevin P. Gallagher & Njūgūna S. Ndūng’ū – Project Syndicate

Top CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers’ pay in 2025

Global real worker pay fell 12 percent while real CEO pay surged 54 percent between 2019 and 2025.

May Day 2026: Top CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers’ pay in 2025 – International Trade Union Confederation

Dancing to Their Tune: Credit Rating Agencies, Sovereign Risk, and Financing Conditions in the Global South

Credit rating agencies (CRAs) play a central role in shaping access to finance for countries in the Global South by influencing borrowing costs, investor perceptions and market access. Although presented as neutral and technical, their assessments directly affect the cost and availability of external financing, often constraining fiscal space and limiting development spending.

Dancing to Their Tune: Credit Rating Agencies, Sovereign Risk, and Financing Conditions in the Global South – Latindadd

Civil Society Call for a Global Fund for Social Protection to build a better common future

This is an updated version of the Call, which has been endorsed by more than 200 civil society organizations in September 2020. The revision is made in light of new political developments through April 2026.

2026-Civil-Society-Call-GFFSP-eng.pdf

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