Category Archive for “Sustainable Agriculture”
9 posts

FAO y transgénicos: apuesta equivocada

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Silvia Ribeiro
Es grave e irresponsable el intento de FAO de legitimar los transgénicos como solución al hambre y la crisis climática en el tercer mundo, cuya expresión más reciente es la conferencia Biotecnologías agrícolas en los países en desarrollo (Guadalajara, México, 14 de marzo). Frente a las críticas que van en aumento, los funcionarios de [...]

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La contaminación transgénica como negocio

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Silvia Ribeiro*
El 6 de marzo, el gobierno mexicano anunció que consideraba terminado (en todos los sentidos de la palabra) el marco legal de bioseguridad en México, abriendo las puertas a la experimentación con maíz transgénico. Un delito histórico, que marca la decisión del gobierno de enajenar y colocar en alto riesgo el patrimonio genético alimentario [...]

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Pat Mooney’s OP-ED in Toronto Star

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Biofuels fuel global food crisis
Toronto Star/star.com July 08, 2008
PAT MOONEY
As G8 leaders meet this week in Japan, their ears will still be ringing from the bombshell dropped last week in a leaked World Bank report declaring that biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 per cent, far higher than previously estimated.
The food crisis [...]

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Pat Mooney’s Testimony on Biofuels to Canadian Senate

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Testimony of Pat Mooney
Executive Director of ETC Group
Before the Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources-regarding Bill C-33 (the “Biofuels Bill”)
Senate of Canada
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Thank you. I will begin by confessing that I am not an expert on biofuels. I feel as though my life has been hijacked by biofuels over [...]

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Biofuels and Transgenics

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Below you will find a series of articles on biofuels, originally written in Spanish by one of ETC Group’s researchers. (Unfortunately, English translations are not always available). Biofuel production is currently a much-debated topic in Latin America. The prominent farmers’ organizations in the region believe that the production of biofuels will lead to further marginalization [...]

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Agrocombustibles y lógicas perversas

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

*Silvia Ribeiro
Una de las muestras más claras de las lógicas perversas del capitalismo es el empuje que desde gobiernos y trasnacionales se da a la producción industrial de agrocombustibles, principalmente etanol y biodiesel. La mayoría de los enunciados de esta campaña -mediática, política y subsidiada con recursos públicos- son falsos. Lo que sí es verdad [...]

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Agro-combustibles versus soberanía alimentaria

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Silvia Ribeiro*
Malí, que alojó en febrero 2007 el Foro Mundial de Soberanía Alimentaria “Nyéléni”, es uno de los diez países más pobres del mundo, si se mide en dinero. Sin embargo el país tiene recursos como oro y algodón —del cual es uno de los principales productores del continente—, pero la herencia colonial y las [...]

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Monsanto’s Takeover of D&PL: The Nail’s in the Coffin

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Last week the US Justice Department (DOJ) gave the green light for Monsanto’s $1.5 billion takeover of the world’s largest cotton seed company, Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) — the company that has long vowed to commercialize Terminator seeds (more on that below). The so-called “anti-trust” regulators approved the deal with [...]

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Babies as Guinea Pigs: Biotech company turns two Peruvian hospitals into laboratories

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Silvia Ribeiro*
The biotech company Ventria Biosciences sponsored tests, on babies and children hospitalized at two pediatric institutes in Peru, of two new experimental drugs derived from transgenic rice that was genetically engineered with synthetic human genes to produce artificial human milk proteins.
The experiments – results of which were revealed this May in the US [...]

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