Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them, writes Colin Todhunter. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
… Philanthropic colonialism: embedding agribusiness and GMOs … dependency. Bill and Melinda's 'philanthropic colonialism' The report by ACB follows a … a specific ideological strategy that promotes neo-liberal economic policies, corporate …
The medical response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been monstrously inadequate, writes Richard Kock. But so has been recognition of the underlying causes - in particular the explosive spread of industrial oil palm, which disrupts the ecology of forests and farms, and undermines local economy and traditional governance, leading to a 'perfect storm' of disease.
… narrative goes that the virus appeared spontaneously in the forest villages of Guinea in … unlikely that this latest outbreak was spontaneous. It is poverty that drives villagers to … of traditional governance, violence under colonial, neo-colonial and more recent …
Members of the food movement share an infectious vision, writes Jonathan Latham - one which is constructive, convivial, classless, raceless, international, and embraces the whole world. Unled yet inspirational, it rests on a novel, harmonious philosophy that combines science, recognition of planetary boundaries, and the universal need for wholesome sustenance.
… food, and in opposition to GMOs. Simultaneously, there has been a massive growth of … the simplest terms possible, the opposite of neoliberal ideology is not communism or … biological understanding of the world. While neoliberalism and socialism are ideologies, …
Fears of floods of migrants are nothing new. But they have become a way to racialise climate change and justify ever-more brutal policing at the border.
… centre in Rwanda, mimicking Australia’s neo-colonial border regime relationship with …
‘Can we love individual immigrants, while opposing mass migration?’ The answer is no.
… capitalism, its whole premise is bizarrely neo-liberal: “We Greens need to be absolutely … Rather, economic growth is contingent on colonial conquest and extractivism. The …