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The “Immaculate Conception of Data” – and why it’s a problem

Episode 2 of 'Who will control the food system?'
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Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back.

Hacinamiento, virulencia y crisis multidimensionales

Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas num. 117

La revista Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas número 117 (Hacinamiento, virulencia y crisis multidimensionales) es un compendio de textos sobre la producción industrial de animales hecho por organizaciones latinoamericanas que ven desde primera fila la sucia producción industrial de reses, cerdos, peces, “carne imposible” y las crisis de contaminación y enfermedad que conlleva.

Big Tech jumping on the food band wagon

Episode 1 of 'Who will control the food system?'
Food Barons report cover art showing peasants resisting corporate digital giants

Industrial agriculture is not so much jumping on the “Food Systems Transformation” band wagon as trying to steal it!

Don’t fall for the UN’s new Food Systems Coordination Hub hype about “Transforming Food Systems for Planetary Health”. The current corporate agenda, championed by this new “Hub” is firmly focused on hijacking the UN’s existing food systems spaces to force through yet another phase of Industrial Agriculture – promoting its technofixes as solutions to the very problems that it itself has caused, including in relation to climate change and biodiversity loss.

FUEGO

Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas No. 116, abril-junio 2023

La revista Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas dedica su número de abril-junio al FUEGO.

No to geoengineers’ technofix gold rush, yes to Real Zero!

Join civil society event at Bonn climate change "intersessionals"
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Previously buried within the UNFCCC’s negotiating corridors and committees, a new technofix gold rush has been stealthily emerging in global climate change negotiations – with potentially disastrous implications for the world’s fight against climate change. 

Biodiversidad, Sustento y Culturas No. 115

Número dedicado a la Soberanía Alimentaria
El mundo ha perdido la sencillez con la que lo leíamos apenas hace unos años. El signo de nuestra época es la complejidad que puede tragarnos, dejándonos en la ceguera o cayendo en los remiendos y las “falsas soluciones” que promueven las corporaciones al cazar, minuto a minuto, más oportunidades para prevalecer, para lucrar, para que sus esquemas sean aceptables y sonrientes.
 
Nadando en esa complejidad, se puso de moda invocar la soberanía alimentaria como “alternativa”.

Groupe de la Banque Africaine de Développement: Sommet Dakar 2

L’agriculture intelligente face au climat renforcera la crise climatique

Alors que les chefs d’État africains se rendent à Dakar pour le Sommet africain de l’alimentation Dakar 2, 83 organisations de la société civile africaine et internationale ont signé une déclaration collective s’opposant à l’approche de « l’agriculture intelligente face au climat » (AIC) du sommet.

Statement on the African Development Bank's Dakar 2 Summit

“Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis
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As African heads of state travel to Dakar for the African Development Bank Group’s Dakar 2 African Food Summit, 83 African and international civil society organisations have signed a collective statement opposing the summit’s “climate smart agriculture” approach.

Mexico sets a global precautionary example by stopping solar geoengineering experiments

Further tests will not be permitted, say Mexican authorities

Mexico City, Mexico – On Friday January 13 the Mexican government announced that it will not allow solar geoengineering experiments in Mexico. This announcement came in response to Make Sunsets’ experiments over Baja California Sur, Mexico, where the two-man startup used weather balloons to spray sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. This took place without the Free Prior and Informed consent of the Indigenous peoples whose territories were used for the experiments and without any permits or even a license to operate a business in Mexico.

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