ABSTRACT

This chapter deals with the aspects of global economic crisis and their tangible effects on communities in the global South, the case of the Inuvik Community Greenhouse highlights and ingenuity borne out of global climatic crisis. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index, an indicator of the global change in international prices of a basket of food commodities, showed the cost of food increased by almost 100". Under the deal South Korea, the world's third biggest maize buyer, would not have paid fees for its 99-year lease of the land, arguing instead that the generation of farming jobs would adequately benefit the Madagascan economy. Chinese corporations, such as the China Zambia Friendship Farm that occupies 667 hectares to grow barley, maize and soybean, are also established in Africa. The Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC) provides people with vegetable and fruit seeds, and gives them rigorous training in how to maintain a garden.