A BBC documentary claimed 90% success for a controversial GM crop in Bangladesh, Bt brinjal, writes Claire Robinson. But as journalist Faisal Rahman discovered, there's no evidence to support the claim, the BBC relied on biased sources, and its journalists failed to investigate reports of widespread crop failure. Was it all an exercise in pro-GMO propaganda?
… | 30th July 2015 News GMOs Food Farming Media Bangladesh UK … 90% success for a controversial GM crop in Bangladesh, Bt brinjal, writes Claire … Fear', has come under attack from a Bangladeshi journalist for falsely portraying …
As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the world, write Mowdud Rahman & Greig Aitken. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands.
… world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future Mowdud Rahman Greig Aitken … Fossil Fuels Coal Biodiversity Conservation Bangladesh sundarbans-tiger-cut.jpg As COP21 … temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate …
The Rampal coal power plant in Bangladesh, near the world's greatest mangrove forest, is a deeply misconceived project that must be abandoned, writes Johan Frijns in this Open Letter to the Exim Bank of India - which is planning to finance its construction. It would severely damage the precious local environment and wildlife, while adding to global climate change and sea level rise.
… 2016 Comment Climate Change Fossil Fuels Coal Bangladesh India Natural World Water Oceans … The Rampal coal power plant in Bangladesh, near the world's greatest mangrove … the coastal areas and shielding the people of Bangladesh from the devastation of cyclones, …
Treasury accused of writing a 'blank cheque' with taxpayers' money for bank to make environmentally-damaging investments
… projects, including open cast mining in Bangladesh, tar sands exploration in Canada … made by RBS in the past year include: Bangladesh - open cast coal mine RBS … UK company pushing for an open cast mine in Bangladesh. There has been fervent local …
The Panorama programme on GM foods and crops last Monday was a masterpiece of spin, bluster, misrepresentation and outright deceit, write Lawrence Woodward & Pat Thomas, with the BBC's top investigatory strand hijacked to force feed the UK population with the purest of pro-GMO propaganda.
… Comment GMOs Media UK Science Food Farming Bangladesh … Mark Lynas : Sweating manfully in the heat of Bangladeshi brinjal fields, this now notorious … tales of GM brinjal (aubergine) cropping in Bangladesh were given such an easy time. …
Just one degree of global warming could cut wheat yields by 42 million tonnes worldwide, around 6% of the crop, writes Paul Brown - causing devastating shortages of this staple food.
… January 2015 News Food Farming Climate Change bangladesh-wheat-cut.jpg A 6% fall in the what … the world. Photo: Women harvest wheat in Bangladesh, by Scott Wallace / World Bank via …
The World Bank's President Dr Kim proclaims his human and green concerns. But at Tata Mundra in Gujarat, India, his support for a 4,000MW coal fired power plant is devastating poor communities and despoliating their environment.
… and Environmental Action Network (CLEAN), Bangladesh Initiative for Right View, Bangladesh Participatory Research Action NetworkPRAN, Bangladesh VOICE, Voices for Interactive …
HSBC claims to exclude coal but they've left the door open on extraction in Vietnam.
… exception for coal-fired power plants in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam. Colonial … to work to re-empower the likes of Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia through a global …
The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture made its high-profile launch at the New York Climate Summit. But for a huge coalition of civil society organizations, it's a 'greenwash' initiative designed to promote intensive profit-driven industrial agriculture at the expense of small farmers, environment, and the real solutions.
… et la Souverainté Alimentaires (AMASSA) Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and … Community Development Association (CDA), Bangladesh Community Empowerment for Progress … EcoNexus, UK Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh (EquityBD). Family Farmers' …
Vandana Shiva explains to the Ecologist how the global anti-GM food movement resonates with the Occupy Wall Street protests
… CAMPAIGN HERO: Khushi Kabir, empowering Bangladesh's most vulnerable Khushi Kabir was … organise over 175,000 landless people in Bangladesh's rural areas since 1980 NEWS …
JP Morgan's announcement that it's pulling out of coal is purest doublespeak, writes Assaad Razzouk. But it's not the only financier to engage in climate hypocrisy, as banks prepare to lend $5 trillion to build 2,440 new coal power stations. To deliver the Paris Agreement they - and the loans that would finance them - must be cancelled.
… aided and abetted by French and local banks. Bangladesh, sinking because of rising sea … from 2% to 50% by 2030 . The generously named Bangladesh-India Friendship Company is …
Rice-eating peoples are very particular about the rice their diets are based on, writes Ted Greiner. And they have a strong aversion to yellow grains, the tell-tale sign of the deadly mould that causes beri-beri disease. That alone makes GMO 'Golden Rice' a non starter; 107 Nobel Laureates had better start eating their words.
… into promoting fresh leaves and vegetables In Bangladesh I was involved with a communication … approach to solving Vitamin A deficiency in Bangladesh . Food and Nutrition Bulletin 16 …
The Ecologist Guide to Food is no soft-centered feel-good flim-flam, warns Jan Goodey, as it tackles tough topics like the slave labour behind your prawns and tomatoes: essential reading for concerned gourmets everywhere.
… gangmasters running the shrimp industry in Bangladesh, a plight similar to that suffered …
Advocates of Golden Rice - a GMO rice that produces Vitamin A - present the debate over its use a clear moral choice with only one possible conclusion. But as Clare Westwood writes, the reality is very different ...
… field trials in the Philippines and in Bangladesh will, in all likelihood, be used to …
Meat is already a huge contributor to climate change, write Dora Marinova & Talia Raphaely, and as 'atmospheric space' for greenhouse gas emissions contracts, its importance will only increase. The good news? If rich countries were just to eat less of it, there's a huge climate win there for the taking!
… the globe. In poor countries such as Chad or Bangladesh, eating meat might be a question of …
The dominant story about the future of the world food supply is logical, well known and widely disseminated, writes Jonathan Foley. It is also completely wrong.
… to the production of an average farm in Bangladesh today. In other words, we grow a …
The Paris Agreement provides a clear mandate to limit global warming, writes Jeremy Brecher. And with governments doing nowhere near enough, it's up to ordinary citizens - through civil disobedience if needs be - to make sure the world breaks free from fossil fuels. Let's make 2016 the year of 'Climate Insurgency'!
… gets 40% of its electricity from wind power; Bangladesh plans to run entirely on solar …
The UK government has spent nearly £4 billion pounds of UK public funding on fossil fuel infrastructure in the global south since the Paris Agreement was signed.
… $120.5 million in two gas-powered plants in Bangladesh. The government argues that these …
Food and water shortages and sharp price hikes in the necessities of life are driving civil unrest and rebellion across the Middle East and North Africa, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Adding to the problem, many of the afflicted countries are of strategic importance for their oil and gas, putting them on the front line of destabilizing 'counter-terrorism' operations.
… Libya* South Sudan* Lebanon* Mali* Egypt* Bangladesh Most of these are Muslim-majority …
Just as the banks are 'too big to fail', so Britain's struggling dairy farmers are 'too small to save', writes Simon Fairlie. And it's not just the government that's happy to see 16 dairy farms go the wall every week - it's also the National Farmers Union to which most pay their dues. The NFU's paradoxical response to the milk glut is to push for ever higher, more intensive milk production.
… were exported to countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda and Columbia, where …
Heathcote Williams remembers India's great campaigner Professor Nanjunda's whose direct actions against Monsanto, KFC, McDonalds, Coca-Cola and the WTO inspired a nation and created an unstoppable movement of 10 million ...
… 50 male and female farmers from India and Bangladesh He besieged Cargill's, the GM food …
The real reason why 'golden rice' remains uncultivated after a 20 year effort is its poor agronomic performance, write Angelika Hilbeck & Hans Herren. But beyond that, the very idea of golden rice as a 'solution' to Vitamin A deficiency fails to recognise the real causes of malnutrition - poverty, hunger and poor diet. How will golden rice reach poor children in the first place? And will they ever get the rich, oily diet they need to assimilate its fat-soluble nutrients?
… the crop in the Philippines, Indonesia and Bangladesh in the near future, Filipino …