What could be more cheerful than this ubiquitous breakfast fruit? But if you’re not buying them Fairtrade and organic, argues Ed Hamer, then you’re buying into a modern agricultural scandal
… Trade Organics Slavery Farming Fair Trade Agribusiness Factory Farming Organics Green … of the breakfast banana. A model that agribusiness is keen to replicate. First …
The revolution taking place in Burkina Faso is far more than an uprising of rebellious youth, writes Alexander Reid Ross. It's a genuine fight for national liberation - from neoliberalism, land grabs, corruption and foreign domination - that evokes the freedom struggle of an earlier generation.
… for subsistence. 'Land reform' - for agribusiness As the cost of land has … reform laws to the effect of an official 'agribusiness' strategy. Installed at the …
The community supports the farmer and the farmer supports the community. Why isn't everyone taking part in the latest agricultural revolution, wonders Ed Hamer
… Farming Forres Scotland EarthShare Farming Agribusiness Factory Farming Food Security … that had suffered at the hands of industrial agribusiness. Between 1985 and 1994, 600-plus …
Founded in 1991 by Craig Sams and his wife Josephine Fairley, Green & Black’s brand was conceived to represent the ‘green’ concerns of its founders and the ‘black’ of the cocoa bean.
… 22nd May 2008 Ethical Living Green And Blacks Agribusiness Organics Farming Factory Farming …
Ed Hamer questions the sanity of agricultural policies that increasingly threaten the sovereignty of the British farmer, as well as the food security of the nation
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The Seeds of Change trademark was created in the 1980s by a small organic seed cooperative from Santa Fe, New Mexico, which set out ‘to help people and future generations improve their lives and enjoy wholesome, natural, chemical-free foods’. Seeds of Change expanded its enterprise in 1996 to include a range of organic soups, cereal bars, pastas and sauces. A year later it was bought by Mars and launched in the UK in 1999.
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In 1952, Rachel Rowlands’ mother Dinah established the UK’s first organic dairy farm near Aberystwyth with a small herd of Guernsey cows, working ‘in harmony with nature, the elements, the seasons and wildlife’. In 1966, Rachel took over the farm and founded the Rachel’s Organic Dairy brand, which was sold to Horizon, a subsidiary of Dean Foods, in 1999.
… Ethical Living Rachel's Organics Organics Agribusiness Factory Farming Food And Farming …
The uniting of 800 million rural workers against the loss of their traditional way of life gives lie to globalisation’s claims to beneficence. Resistance is far from futile, says Ed Hamer
… and high-yielding seed varieties (HYVs) by US agribusiness. ‘Understandably,’ Taranjit tells … free tea bushes to India’s small farmers, US agribusiness had taken less than a decade to …
Peru, notorious for its brutal exploitation of forests, oil and minerals, theft of indigenous lands and murder of eco-defenders, is an unlikely host for the COP20 climate talks, writes Alexander Reid Ross. Except that Peru's actions reflect the corporate land-grabbing agenda manifest in the false solutions on offer in Lima this week. It's a time for resistance, not compromise!
… and Nutrition in Africa, includes major agribusiness interests in what is called … against the obtrusive presence of globalized agribusiness and exploitation, Indigenous …
The Land Workers Alliance gathered yesterday at DEFRA's London HQ to protest at the corrupt relationship between Government and corporate agriculture - and the deliberate marginalisation of small farmers, our most sustainable producers. Ed Hamer explains ...
… albeit audacious, display of his bias towards agribusiness and the landed gentry. In reality …