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Maíz, transgénicos y transnacionales

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Presentación del libro

Este viernes 18 de junio, a las 12:00, horario de la Ciudad de México, tendrá lugar la presentación del libro

Maíz, transgénicos y transnacionales

Con los comentarios de

María Elena Álvarez-Buylla, Directora General del CONACYT, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de México

Silvia Ribeiro, Directora para América Latina del Grupo ETC y autora del libro

Evangelina Robles González, Colectivo por la Autonomía

Solar Geoengineering

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Warnings from scientists, indigeous peoples, youth and climate activists

Once relegated to the fringe of the climate debate, plans to use solar geoengineering to mask rising temperatures are receiving increasing attention from some scientists, governments, and the media. Catchy headlines about silver bullet fixes often downplay the real and profound risks that such technologies pose — including potentially devastating harm to ecosystems, increased droughts and extreme weather events, and the disruption of food production for millions of people around the world.

Geinigeniería Solar: Voces críticas

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VIDEO EN ESPAÑOL

Desde los primeros meses de 2021, científicos, pueblos indígenas y movimientos por el clima se unieron para frenar el proyecto de geoingeniería solar SCoPEx en Kiruna, Suecia.

El miércoles próximo, 9 de junio, Michael Mann, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Jennie Stephens, Tom Goldtooth, Naomi Klein, Åsa Larsson Blind, Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva y Greta Thunberg convergen con el mensaje: la geoingeniería no es una solución climática.

Leading Climate Scientists, Climate Activists, Indigenous Peoples, and Youth Speak on the Risks of Solar Geoengineering

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Panels to discuss the growing risks and unequal impact of dangerous technological fixes

Once relegated to the fringe of the climate debate, proposals to use  solar geoengineering to mask the impacts of planetary warming are receiving increasing attention from scientists, the government, and the media. While conversations often center around “silver bullet fixes” they too frequently downplay the real and profound risks that such technologies pose. These impacts would affect all of us but would fall most heavily on Indigenous Peoples and communities in the Global South. 

NUEVO VIDEO - El Gran hermano llega al campo: asalto digital a la alimentación

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Presentamos la nueva animación del Grupo ETC
An illustration of a cow standing next to a high-tec farm house

Las corporaciones más grandes del mundo están impulsando cambios drásticos y a gran escala en la agricultura, el procesamiento de alimentos y el comercio minorista en todo el mundo. En colaboración con Freehand Studio en Nairobi, presentamos El Gran hermano llega al campo, que cuestiona el discurso industrial dominante, de soluciones tecnológicas, que promueve la próxima Cumbre sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios. Nuestra animación afirma que la soberanía alimentaria y la agroecología son el único camino.

New online resources to support the participatory assessment of new technologies

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Illustration of an peasant farmers on a zoom call

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the rise of a global resource-grab in our food and agriculture systems. This encompassing the digitalization of its core ecological and social components as a new means of making vast profits. Approaches that claim precision and efficient resource use are in fact a power grab by a data colossus – the world’s largest corporations, such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Alibaba - from the fields and fishing grounds of farmers and fisherfolk.

Maíz, transgénicos y transnacionales

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por Silvia Ribeiro / Grupo ETC

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Esta compilación de artículos de Silvia Ribeiro se basa en el trabajo colectivo del Grupo ETC y abarca un período de 15 años desde que se descubre la contaminación transgénica del maíz nativo en México, su centro de origen. Un hecho relevante para todas y todos, porque el maíz es uno de los tres cultivos bases de la alimentación mundial.

US and Canadian Groups Call for Ban on Face Masks Containing Toxic Nanomaterials

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Face masks designed to protect against COVID-19 should use properly registered ingredients and not expose users to nanomaterials at occupational exposure levels

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, leading environmental and human health advocacy groups from the United States and Canada provided detailed evidence about face masks containing potentially toxic nanoscale materials in a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC).

À la mémoire de Rene Segbenou

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Le groupe ETC souhaite exprimer nos sincères condoléances aux amis, à la famille et aux collègues COPAGEN de René Segbenou décédé le 11 avril 2021.

Le groupe ETC souhaite exprimer nos sincères condoléances aux amis, à la famille et aux collègues COPAGEN de René Segbenou décédé le 11 avril 2021. René Ségbènou a été sur plusieurs fronts depuis plus d’une trentaine d’années : semences paysannes, OGM, biosécurité, agroécologie, UPOV, brevetage du vivant, accaparement des terres, et la lutte contre le Coton BT au Burkina. Que son âme repose en paix.

In memory of Rene Segbenou

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ETC group would like to extend our sincere condolences to the friends, family and COPAGEN colleagues of Rene Segbenou who passed away on April 11, 2021.

ETC group would like to extend our sincere condolences to the friends, family and COPAGEN colleagues of Rene Segbenou who passed away on April 11, 2021. For over thirty years René Ségbènou has fought on so many fronts: peasant seeds, GMOs, biosecurity, agroecology, UPOV, patenting of living organisms, land grabbing, and the fight against BT cotton in Burkina. Rest in Peace.

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