Green Revolution
Rather than increasing food production through land reform and agroecology, the Green Revolution promotes technological intensification using new seed varieties, mechanization and agrochemicals. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on the Green Revolution
Nigeria’s Latest Food Sovereignty Struggle: The World is Watching
Blog | Lauren Tate Baeza | Aug 10, 2016
The biotechnology brigade has underestimated the power of the people. More than just a “vocal minority,” global GMO resistance movements…
A Tale of Two Pigeon Peas: Bill Gates’ failing Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez and Lauren Tate Baeza | Jul 25, 2016
For a decade, Bill Gates—the quintessential technocrat—has been trying to end hunger in Africa by re-launching (yet again) the Green…
Arroces dorados y consensos científicos
Blog | Carmelo Ruiz | Jul 15, 2016
El artículo original se puede encontrar aquí. “¡Se acabó el debate sobre los transgénicos! Los activistas alarmistas perdieron y la…
Golden Rice and Scientific Consensus
Blog | Carmelo Ruiz | Jul 15, 2016
“The GMO debate is over! The alarmist activists have lost and science has won!” Well – that’s the impression one…
Nyéléni Newsletter No. 26: Land Reform and Food Sovereignty
Nyéléni Newsletter | Nyéléni Newsletter | Jun 14, 2016
Nyéléni Newsletter No. 26: Land Reform and Food Sovereignty A wave of financial capital is crashing down upon the resources held…
The Hunger of Reproach: Is there hope for our food system?
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jun 13, 2016
I once sat with farmers at a long table during a Bizkaia winter, warming up with a flaming carajillo, trying…
Pueblos Indigenas de Guatemala Rechazan Protocolo de Nagoya
Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Jun 10, 2016
Claiming that it would endanger traditional seeds, the Ancestral Council of Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala rejected the “Nagoya Protocol” that…
Pesticide Action Network: New GE Report misses its own point
Blog | Marcia Ishii-Eiteman | May 27, 2016
Last week, the National Academies of Science (NAS) attracted much media attention with the release of its new report, “Genetically…
Seed laws, certification and standardization: outlawing informal seed systems in the Global South
Academic Publication | Tamara Wattnem | Mar 17, 2016
A series of relatively new seed laws are becoming novel mechanisms of accumulation by dispossession in agriculture. Many researchers have…
When a banana is much more than a banana
Blog | Ahna Kruzic, Angie Carter and Rivka Fidel | Mar 7, 2016
Ames, Iowa – A recent controversy about an upcoming genetically engineered (GE) banana study at Iowa State University (ISU) highlights…
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