IBON Europe, a south-north solidarity and advocacy organization, successfully hosted a roundtable on food sovereignty and climate change on October 25, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.  Attended by representatives of 12 development and solidarity organizations, the roundtable created a cross-network dialogue space that discussed a southern advocacy framework on food sovereignty and climate change policy development in the North.

As proceedings begin against Iceland’s former Prime Minister, Geir Haarde, for the banking crisis of 2008, at least two thousand Icelanders took to the streets in two days of protest this weekend. Iceland joins over a dozen other nations protesting economic measures taken out on the public while banks and large corporations receive bailouts. Class war is on, and it’s gone global.

Devinder Sharma is an analyst on trade and food policy, as well as an award-winning journalist, writer, thinker and researcher. Well known for his forthright views on the implications of the free trade paradigm for agriculture in developing countries, Sharma has been dubbed the ‘Green Chomsky’ by India’s leading English magazine, The Week. Living in New Delhi, he chairs the independent Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security. He also regularly updates the influential blog, Ground Reality – Understanding the politics of food, agriculture and hunger.