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AFRICA G8 - Food Security For Whom? Corporate Profits vs SmallHolder Farmers Interest

AFRICA G8 - Food Security For Whom? Corporate Profits vs SmallHolder Farmers Interest | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
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The Camp David summit of the G-8 countries, held on May 17-18, announced a "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition," pitched as potentially raising 60 billion people out of poverty over the next 10 years. But the program as announced, featuring some $3 billion in investment pledges by 45 private agribusiness companies, was grotesquely out of sync with international commitments to respecting country-owned plans and prioritizing broad-based public investment to benefit smallholder farmers.African news and information for a global audience...http://allafrica.com/stories/201205250760.html

 

THE GMO JUGGERNAUT: FULL LIST OF COMPANIES INVOLVED IN G8's MULTI-NATIONAL GMO TAKEOVER:  All Powerful Corporations Form Global Cartel to push genetically engineered, biotech food onto the world. Full Listing of Participants http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Alliance_for_Food_Security_and_Nutrition

 

African Agriculture: A contrarian view of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2012/10/a-contrarian-view-of-alliance-for-green.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29

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Are giant agriculture firms trying to monopolise and patent the world's food supply?

Are giant agriculture firms trying to monopolise and patent the world's food supply? | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it

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.

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The Future of Food-Part 2 Vandana Shiva

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

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