Corporate interests have skewed the entire development agenda for agriculture in Africa, writes Ian Fitzpatrick. Instead of investing in sustainable, small scale farming along agroecological principles that raise production and support rural communities, governments - including the UK's - are backing destructive industrial farming and land grabs.
… Agroecology can feed Africa - not agribusiness Ian Fitzpatrick | 10th March 2015 … highly subsidised North American and European agribusiness. But there's no reason why trade …
The Gates Foundation - widely assumed to be 'doing good', is imposing a neoliberal model of development and corporate domination that's opening up Africa's agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. In the process it is foreclosing on the real solutions - enhancing food security, food sovereignty and the move to agroecological farming.
… agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. In the … agriculture for the benefit of global agribusiness The report notes that the BMGF's … BMGF partners with many other multinational agribusiness corporations. Many examples where …
Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing the millions of small cultivators that now feed the continent, and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties. The agencies effecting the transformation are legion - but they are all marching to a single drum.
… are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing the … Together they are committed to helping agribusiness become the continent's primary … also changing African laws to accommodate the agribusiness agenda. Privatising both land and …
Lured by promises of aid and investment, African governments are rewriting laws to create lucrative opportunities for corporate agribusiness, writes Chris Walker - while consigning their own farmers to servitude and landlessness. But now farmers are rising up, as in Ghana where a new 'Monsanto law' threatens to end their right to grow, save and share their ancestral seeds.
… create lucrative opportunities for corporate agribusiness, writes Chris Walker - while … comes at the same time as the politicians and agribusiness representatives come together for …
USAID, the UK's DFID and the World Bank are among those covering up for severe human rights abuses against indigenous peoples in Ethiopia's Omo Valley, inflicted during forced evictions to make way for huge plantations, writes Will Hurd. Their complicity in these crimes appears to be rooted in US and UK partnership with Ethiopia in the 'war on terror'.
… the poor' opens the way to international agribusiness The resettlements were happening …
On Monday the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that, in tandem with other Bank initiatives, is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.
… changes which make it as easy as possible for agribusiness corporations to get access to … first edition presents "initial data on the agribusiness sector enabling environment" in … which are largely produced by Northern agribusinesses, not by local communities." And …
Development secretary Justine Greening is facing questions over UK involvement in a massive land-grab in Nigeria that is evicting local farmers from 300 square kilometres of fertile farmland to clear the way for a rice farm owned and controlled from the US and Canada. A 45,000-strong community faces landlessness and destitution.
… to be more about providing opportunities for agribusiness to carve up the resources of … especially in the North. Land grabs for agribusiness projects will only make the …
GM crops may benefit agribusiness, writes Andrew Adam-Bradford. But they offer little to Africa or the millions of farming communities that feed the continent. Rather than impose corporate 'solutions', governments should invest in indigenous agro-ecological farming.
… GM crops may benefit agribusiness, writes Andrew Adam-Bradford. But …
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots, where indigenous tribes have long lived in harmony with the forest and its wildlife, writes Rod Harbinson. But now they are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Now local communities are defending themselves and their land.
… park, in the hands of private developers for agribusiness (such as palm oil and rubber … park, in the hands of private developers for agribusiness such as palm oil and rubber …
A constitutional amendment that would allow 'strategic' public works including dams, roads, mines and other mega-projects to go ahead following the mere completion of an environmental impact assessment is being considered by a Committee of the Brazilian Senate, writes Helle Abelvik-Lawson.
… known as the 'soy king' due to his extensive agribusiness interests in the commodity, is a …
Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma, writes Daniel Macmillen - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
… they increased taxes on private oil firms and agribusiness, and nationalized particular …
A bill to quadruple the UK's aid funding to a profit-driven 'private equity' company owned by the government comes before MPs today for its third reading, writes Global Justice Now. Trouble is the investments do little or nothing for the poor, and instead entrench corporate power in health, education and infrastructure. Parliament should seize this last chance to reject the new law.
… "shopping therapy at its best." [50] Big agribusiness in Zambia In 2016, CDC invested … GardenCityNbi 51. "Fast track agribusiness expansion, land grabs and the …
The UK government has showered £500 million of its aid budget on 'partnerships' with global corporations that are meant to help the poor, writes Kevin Smith. Surprise - an independent assessment has found that the only ones to benefit were the companies themselves. This ideologically-driven farce must stop now!
… were being forced off their land by an agribusiness corporation that was part of the …