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El Long Food Project: Herramientas para fortalecer los sistemas alimentarios encabezados por los pueblos

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Para conmemorar el Día Mundial de la Alimentación (16 de octubre de 2023), IPES-Food y Grupo ETC comparten una serie de recursos prácticos destinados a ayudar a todos aquellos de nosotros en organizaciones y movimientos de la sociedad civil de todo el mundo que rechazamos los “agronegocios como siempre” y que trabajamos para fortalecer los sistemas alimentarios liderados por las personas en consonancia con la justicia social y la supervivencia del planeta.

Affirming precaution on geoengineering and other dangerous distractions

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Climate and biodiversity

9 - AFRICA, 2nd floor
October 17, 2023  |  1:15pm
Light refreshments will be served

 

Affirming the CBD’s leadership in taking precautionary decisions on geoengineering is urgent for the world to take real climate action and avoid false solutions.

Join us to learn about the latest dangerous distractions being promoted by geoengineers and hear from experts, civil society and governments who support precaution on geoengineering.
 

Long Food Project launches new tools to strengthen people-led food systems

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To mark World Food Day (16 October 2023), IPES-Food and ETC-Group  are launching a series of practical resources aimed at helping all those of us in civil society organisations and movements around the world who reject “agribusiness-as-usual” and are working to strengthen people-led food systems in line with social justice and the planet’s survival. 

These Long Food Project resources encourage us to think decades ahead and collectively plan for the future.

Industrial seaweed will not cool the climate or save nature, new report says

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Research shows that mass seaweed plantations pose a major threat to marine ecosystems and are unlikely to capture or permanently store significant quantities of carbon.

September 20, 2023 - A report published today by the international research organization ETC Group casts serious doubts on seaweed as an emerging “blue carbon” industry. Their research shows that mass seaweed plantations pose a major threat to marine ecosystems and are unlikely to capture or permanently store significant quantities of carbon.[1]

Solar Geoengineering could cause a climate disaster, we need to stop it

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Overshoot Commission report endorses unproven carbon removal technology, opens door to solar geoengineering
Esquema de geoingeniería solar, de la página de Sola Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement

MEXICO, PHILIPPINES, CANADA – As one of the first civil society organizations to raise the alarm about the dangers of geoengineering, ETC Group strongly opposes the Climate Overshoot Commission’s report launched in New York today, especially its endorsement of unproven carbon removal technology, and the potential for this report to open the door to solar geoengineering. (Image from Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agrement).
 

The “Immaculate Conception of Data” – and why it’s a problem

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Episode 2 of 'Who will control the food system?'
Food Barons report cover art showing peasants resisting corporate digital giants
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Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back.

Hacinamiento, virulencia y crisis multidimensionales

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Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas num. 117

La revista Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas número 117 (Hacinamiento, virulencia y crisis multidimensionales) es un compendio de textos sobre la producción industrial de animales hecho por organizaciones latinoamericanas que ven desde primera fila la sucia producción industrial de reses, cerdos, peces, “carne imposible” y las crisis de contaminación y enfermedad que conlleva.

Big Tech jumping on the food band wagon

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Episode 1 of 'Who will control the food system?'
Food Barons report cover art showing peasants resisting corporate digital giants
Audio: 

Industrial agriculture is not so much jumping on the “Food Systems Transformation” band wagon as trying to steal it!

Don’t fall for the UN’s new Food Systems Coordination Hub hype about “Transforming Food Systems for Planetary Health”. The current corporate agenda, championed by this new “Hub” is firmly focused on hijacking the UN’s existing food systems spaces to force through yet another phase of Industrial Agriculture – promoting its technofixes as solutions to the very problems that it itself has caused, including in relation to climate change and biodiversity loss.

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