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Activist and best selling author Anna Lappé is on a mission to show there is a more natural and sustainable way of feeding the world... http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/anna-lappe-activist-food-campaign?newsfeed=true
The Global Chemical Biotech Cartel - An unprecedented power over world agriculture and human health http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1716244040/the-global-chemical-biotech-cartel-an-unprecedented-power-over-world-agriculture-and-human-health
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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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Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa Some 15 million Africans abandon the countryside every year in pursuit of better lives in the city. Climate change and further desertification will only exacerbate that trend. How will these ballooning urban populations survive? The best strategy, they're finding, is to begin sowing seeds right where they are. Delete the scoop?
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