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Food First, also known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy, is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, USA. Founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, it describes itself as a "people's think tank and education-for-action center".〔(2001 Progress Report ), ''Food First News and Views'', Winter 2002, Volume 25, Number 84. Accessed online 21 September 2006. The specific self-description comes from "About Food First" in that issue; see page footer for alternative name; Oakland address is on same p hyphens instead of en dashes misspelling or improper capitalization date formats listed in WP:BADDATEFORMAT impossible dates (e.g., 29 February 2011) errors in |date= caused by errors in |year=, |month=, or |day= more than one date in a date-holding parameter WP:DATERANGE describes how to separate dates in a date range. Do not use , –, or . For help in making en dashes, see Wikipedia:How to make dashes. A bot is often able to correct the separator, provided the overall format is unambiguous. Future dates in CS1 citations are limited to current year + 1; that is, for 2014, citation dates in 2015 are acceptable but citation dates in 2016 and beyond are not. Dates prior to 1582 are treated as Julian calendar dates. Dates from 1582 onward are treated as Gregorian calendar dates. The Julian calendar was used in some places until approximately 1923. Three Julian calendar dates in the overlap period, 29 February in the years 1700, 1800, and 1900, will cause this error message because those years are not leap years in the Gregorian calendar. Pages with this error are automatically placed in Category:CS1 errors: dates.()age.〕 Its mission is “to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger”. According to the Food First website, its main goal is to forge food sovereignty for human rights and sustainable livelihoods, and to do so it has three programs of development: building local agri-foods systems, farmers forming food sovereignty, and democratizing development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Food First Website )〕 The organization is meant to offer policy analysis on poverty, agriculture, and development, and is highly critical of the policies implemented by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The organization focuses on the Green Revolution which was supported in the 1970s and which did not produce the development people hoped for. Instead it put in place a system that has high input-costs, but does not produce a yield much higher than traditional farming methods. There has been a recent resurgence of Green Revolution ideas, especially with the large-scale support of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and high-yield-variety agriculture. Food First claims that these policies will only further global inequalities, and has produced several policy briefs stating that the way to establish fair and effective development is through local sustainable agriculture. ==History and organizational structure== The organization began in 1975 as the Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP). The institute was founded by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, and actually began in New York in Lappe’s basement before relocating to San Francisco, and then later to Oakland where it is still located. In 1977 the IFDP published its first work, ''Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity'', and has since continued publishing policy briefs and analysis on the world food system and the inequalities that are caused by it.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Food First History )〕 Today's Food First is managed by a board of trustees that has five members with backgrounds in different non-profit organizations. They have a shared vision of creating a more grass-roots based system of economic development through the endorsement of local and sustainable agriculture systems. The organization's president is Joyce E. King, whose work in sociology has focused on “women's participation in grass roots social change movements in Africa, South America and France”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Food First: Who We Are )〕 In addition to the Board of Trustees, Food First has six staff members who work on the organization's policy briefs. The staff's executive director is Eric Holt-Gimenez, who has published several books on global inequalities and the global food system, including ''Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice'', which outlines seven steps to solving the world food crisis. Finally, the organization benefits from the support of the general public through interns and volunteers who contribute to the process of policy research. Food First is a think-tank composed of many individuals from many different backgrounds, who share the organization's aim of eliminating global inequalities through the rethinking of the world's emphasis on industry-based economics, and shifting the paradigm towards a more inclusive form of economic development. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Food First」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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