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  • Agribusiness Giants seeks Control over our Food Supply
    10 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    GlobalResearch
    Review of F. William Engdahl’s "Seeds of Destruction"
    by Stephen Lendman
    Part II
    William Engdahl’s book is a diabolical account of how four Anglo-American agribusiness giants plan world domination by patenting life forms to gain worldwide control of our food supply and our lives. This review is in three in-depth parts. Part I was published and is available on this web site. Part II follows below.
    Washington Launches the GMO Revolution
    The roots of the story go back (…)

  • Global food supply is dwindling rapidly, UN agency warns
    20 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BLACKLISTSNEWS, December 17, 2007. Reprint from International Herald Tribune
    ROME: In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
    The changes created "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food," particularly in the developing world, said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
    The (…)

  • AGRO-FUEL toasting the Indonesian rainforests (+video)
    15 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Whilst teeming with a vast diversity of life, Indonesia’s lush rainforests are quite simply disappearing — meaning that its eco-system and climate processes are sorely being affected.
    75 percent of the nation’s rainforests have already been cut down by loggers wishing to exploit the opportunity to make huge profits feeding the insatiable worldwide demand for timber.
    Many of the logging companies act illegally, aided by distributive corruption at every level of bureaucracy.
    The area of (…)

  • "The Price of Sugar": The enslavement of Haïtian Workers
    23 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The Price of Sugar" (thepriceofsugar.com) follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere’s poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic, he’s warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade.
    On an island (…)

  • WHEAT BIOPIRACY :The Real Issues the Government is Avoiding, BY Vandana SHIVA
    21 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ZMAG, November 16, 2007
    The epidemic of biopiracy is an assault on our living heritage of biodiversity and cumulative innovation embodied in the traditional knowledge of agriculture and medicine. In the long run, it determines livelihoods and economic sovereignty because what is commonly available becomes an ?intellectual property? of a company for which royalty must be paid.
    It is the governments duty to protect the resources and heritage of the country and prevent its usurpation by (…)

  • Biofuel: a Real Danger to Poor Countries
    14 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ramine Abadie
    Energy. Experts and NGOs are concerned about the perverse effects of this type of production in a world that faces hunger shortages.
    While the European Union plans to promote biofuel, experts in food, development, and NGOs are sounding the alarm bell about the risks linked to its production - more particularly the harmful effects on food production. According to FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) figures, there are more than 850 million people in the world who face (…)

  • How one country became Bio-Friendly: Cuba, ‘The Accidental Revolution’
    13 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    While certain counties battle with their citizen over the legality of labeling genetically modified foods, and chemically produced and enhanced foods as ‘natural’, other countries are showing us how to work with nature.
    The following two part CBC documentary from ‘The Nature of Things’ with David Suzuki examines Cuba’s ‘Accidental Revolution’, where in less then a decade Cuba learned how to grow food that feeds its people using only 5% of the energy that is required in Northern (…)

  • Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
    Soaring crop prices and demand for biofuels raise fears of political instability John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian Saturday November 3 2007
    Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to (…)

  • Under the Hammer
    16 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Under the Hammer By David Glenn Cox
    Through serendipity I received the other day in the mail a four page color brochure. Online Auction Due To Plant Closure, 2 Day Auction of Over 700 Lots of Textile & Plant Support Equipment. I thought it odd that I should receive it in the mail but maybe someone thought I might be in the market to open my own textile mill or perhaps like the outsourcing companies they have to post the jobs locally first. (…)

  • ARGENTINA: Expansion of Agricultural Frontier Endangers Native Communities
    1 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ARGENTINA: Expansion of Agricultural Frontier Endangers Native Communities
    Marcela Valente
    BUENOS AIRES, Aug 30 (IPS) - Encroached upon by the expanding agricultural frontier and facing the indifference of the state, indigenous communities in the northeastern Argentine province of Chaco have problems of access to water, food and their natural medicines, and are heading towards extinction.
    Images of emaciated men and women suffering from hunger and tuberculosis in the district of Villa (…)