Badael/Alternatives

Been at the Food Sovereignty-Free Trade conference all day. Too tired to blog, but not too tired to link to today's Badael in Al Akhbar. My editorial: Farmers to remain neglected until they learn belly dancing. Rana Hayek on why coops, and why not! And Muhammad Muhsin tries to answer my question: why is Lebanese freekeh so much more expensive than freekeh imported from Syria?