Quick Reads

Did you know that the digitalization of agriculture could affect farmers’ rights?

Submitted by Laura Dunn on

Digital agriculture, as being proposed by giant agribusiness and data companies, should come with a warning for farmers, farm workers and food vendors. Read our blog below to find out about why in more detail (with examples) and about alternative approaches (also with some real world, feasible examples). But if you are short of time, check out our bullet point ‘what to watch out for’ summary:

Farmers:

Disruption! A battle for the future of food

Submitted by Laura Dunn on

Introducing ETC Group's new board game

Who decides the future of food? When politicians, companies and others talk about ‘the food system’, they include the work of growing, producing and distributing food. But there is more than one way of organising a food system. Over the last few decades, the way in which people grow, share and eat food around the world has become a tale of two conflicting food systems – which we call the Industrial Food Chain and the Peasant Food Web. We created the game Disruption! to bring to life the tension between these two food systems and reveal the dangerous dynamics it creates.

Life, the Pluriverse and everything

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on

Episode 3 of our new podcast mini-series "Spanner in the Works"
Illustration of spanner with icons representing various technologies surrounding a hand holding crops.

In celebration of United Nations World Philosophy Day 2021, ETC Group presents its third and final podcast in the "Spanner in the System" series, focussing on the philosophical underpinnings of corporate visions for disruptive technology.

You can listen to it on our podcast channels on Apple, Google, Spotify and YouTube, and here.

Geoingeniería y “cero-neto” en la COP26

Submitted by Veronica Villa on

En la COP26 se promueven riesgosos esquemas de geoingeniería

En resumen:

1. En la COP 26 de la Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático (CMNUCC) se están promoviendo arriesgados planes de geoingeniería para justificar el problemático concepto de “cero neto”, que distraerá de realizar los cambios necesarios para llegar realmente a cero emisiones contaminantes.

2. Las técnicas de geoingeniería, en gran medida inexistentes, se basan en teorías científicas sesgadas, que proporcionan a la industria de los combustibles fósiles una coartada más para seguir extrayendo y contaminando.

3. Contrarrestar las narrativas de gobiernos y corporaciones que promueven “cero emisiones netas” y geoingeniería, es una tarea vital en la COP26. No podemos perder el poco tiempo que tenemos para cambiar realmente el curso del caos climático.

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