- A community-led response to climate change in Kenya
Short film, co-produced by the Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE) in Kenya, the African Biodiversity Network (ABN) and The Gaia Foundation (UK).
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Land Rush looks at how multinational agribusiness is threatening African farmers' ability to feed their communities.
Watch this film now! - Running Time 53:22 GLOBAL VOICES "LAND RUSH" VIDEO http://www.itvs.org/films/land-rush
How do you feed the world? 75% of Mali's population are farmers, but rich foreign corporations are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into American-style agribusiness monoculture mechanized farms for their own profit and export, destroying and changing ecosystems and the culture. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism threatening their ability to feed themselves. As Mali experiences a military coup, the developers are scared off but can Mali's farmers combat food shortages and escape poverty on their own terms? Africa produces 10 percent less food than it did in 1960. In Mali, an American plan for a vast genetically engineered sugar cane (biofuel) operation on the banks of the Niger River threatens small-scale native rice farmers who have fed their communities for generations.... http://video.pbs.org/video/2296680847
MORE ABOUT THE FILM http://www.itvs.org/films/land-rush
LAND GRAB, SPECULATION, BIOFUELS = FOOD CRISIS - VIDEO REPORT http://sco.lt/5Wd0xV
FOOD, FUEL AND THE GLOBAL LAND GRAB - THE INCOME DIVIDE FOOD WARS http://sco.lt/8f8GfJ
29 March, 2013 - Brownfield Ag News For America
MORE ON HOW FOREIGN LAND GRABS http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=land+grab
MORE ON BIOFUELS http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=BIOFUELS
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March 30, 11:33 PM
When profits overide local culture, destroy ecosystems and environment for the western ideal of monoculture agriculture, owned by multi-nationals, displacing local indigenous peoples, it is time to draw a line. In this instance, in Mali, the sugar cane is for export, not for local food supply and the indigenous peoples will be doomed to working laborers in an environment of big agriculture for little money. Creating dependency on foreign aid and hand-outs for food for survival while foreign entities profit greatly is NOT where we should be going for the future. Money is not the currency for many cultures, it is producing food locally for themselves and their community and we have no right to impose our outside mega gmo agriculture on anyone, destroying their connection to their lands and livelihoods. Delete the scoop?
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While the United Nations climate talks in Durban enter their ninth day of political feet-dragging, researchers and peasants around the world are busy connecting the dots between so- called "green climate solutions", industrialised agriculture and chronic hunger. Delete the scoop?
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News about the Monsanto Company. Commentary and archival information about the Monsanto Company from The New York Times. Delete the scoop?
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In part two, Dr. Vandana Shiva expresses her strong views about the problems of hunger in the developing world; the struggle of farmers in India; biotechnology, and her prescription for the type of farming model she believes the world needs....http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/951852556/the-future-of-food-part-2-vandana-shiva
VIDEO: A SYSTEM BASED ON PROFITS IS UNSUSTAINABLE: Vandana Shiva on Industrial Agriculture - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_sppz11eY&feature=youtu.be
SMALL FAMILY/ORGANIC FARMERS FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL AGAINST MONSANTO -- CSR WIRE The Future of Your Food http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1157036889/small-family-organic-farmers-fight-for-survival-against-monsanto-the-future-of-your-food
Ecocide and Sacred Law: A fundamental intrinsic value of the sacredness of all life. http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3444163013/ecocide-and-sacred-law-a-fundamental-intrinsic-value-of-the-sacredness-of-all-life
The USA Monoculture mania must and can be overcome - Industrial Agriculture http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2468166985/the-usa-monoculture-mania-must-and-can-be-overcome-industrial-agriculture Delete the scoop?
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Al Jazeera does an indepth investigation: WATCH:Does 'biopiracy' endanger world food supplies? Seed monopolies could affect livelihoods of farmers, biodiversity. Patenting crop-breeding techniques has economic, ecological and ethical implications. Currently, five biotech corporations account for 77 percent of patents on living organisms. Delete the scoop?
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New VIDEO report calls for sweeping agricultural reform... Delete the scoop?
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Across the globe, local farmers are being displaced to make way for energy crop plantations... POLOCHIC VALLEY, GUATEMALA—Echoes from armed raids still seem to resound in this valley, eight hours north of the capital city. In early 2011 military and paramilitary forces forcibly evicted 13 communities of indigenous Mayan peasants—some 300 families were dispossessed of disputed land they had been living on for three years to secure the property rights of one powerful local family, the Widmanns, and its agribusiness company Chabil Utzaj. Delete the scoop?
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