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Grain Traders, Greed and Oligopoly Power

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New research confirms that ag commodity traders sit at the pinnacle of the industrial food chain, influencing how, where and when a staggering volume of commercially traded food is grown, who grows it and under what conditions.

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Agricultural Commodity Traders are complex, highly diversified global firms that operate in all phases of industrial food production and trade, from origination and storage to processing, marketing, financing and investment, and risk management. 

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Concentración Corporativa
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Alimentación y Agricultura: FAO, CGIAR, CFS

What does data justice mean for African small-holder farmers?

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A critical analysis of biodigital technologies and their expanding role in food and agriculture. Central to the authors' argument is the question of who ultimately stands to benefit from this so-called “fourth agricultural revolution."
Participants engaging in the “Narratives of Power Building” session, exploring perceptions of technological power and progress in relation to Africa’s food systems

This article was written by Matthew Canfield, Sabrina Masinjila, Barbara Ntambirweki, and was originally published by Agroecology Now. Central to the authors' argument is the question of who ultimately stands to benefit from this so-called “fourth agricultural revolution.” They contend, first and foremost, that data justice must be grounded in the lived experiences and livelihoods of food producers.

AI's Large Looting Models? The Emerging Generative Biology Stack as the Next Frontier of Biopiracy

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Generative Biology (GenBio) is the use of generative AI to redesign genomes, proteins, RNA and metabolic pathways. Promoted as a transformative solution for health, food, and climate challenges, its greatest value may lie in serving the AI industry itself

This report sheds light on an emergent field: Generative Biology (GenBio), the application of generative AI to redesign genomes, proteins, RNA, and metabolic pathways. GenBio is expanding at extraordinary speed, propelled by Big Tech and venture capital, with pharmaceuticals as its primary market and growing applications across agriculture, materials, and energy.

Commons to Code: How Platforms Rewire Agriculture and Reshape Power

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This case study examines the rise of digitised, data-dependent agriculture, focusing on Bayer's Climate FieldView as a prime example of how agribusiness and technology companies are reshaping food systems

This study maps the flow of agricultural data, from data generation on farms to storage, processing and monetisation, showing how each stage is integrated into infrastructures and contractual regimes controlled by companies. Through this flow, farmers' practices, environments and knowledge are translated into private data flows, reinforcing platform lock-in, algorithmic governance and financialisation.

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Derechos humanos / Derechos de los Agricultores
Relacionados foros: 
Alimentación y Agricultura: FAO, CGIAR, CFS

Ecuador, genocidio en Gaza, Nyéléni: las luchas de los pueblos en tiempos oscuros

Enviado por Veronica Villa el

Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas 126

En este número de Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas, el editorial resalta: “Seguiremos entregando información veraz, resaltando los miles de ejemplos de lucha valiente que los pueblos y sus organizaciones continúan desplegando, desenmascarando las formas de acción del capital trasnacional y la violencia criminal, apoyando las muchas formas de resistencia que hoy se construyen. Los tiempos son oscuros, pero el futuro sigue siendo nuestro."

 

 

Nyéléni: apuesta por la esperanza

Enviado por Veronica Villa el

Impresiones del Grupo ETC en Kandy

El proceso Nyéléni, nacido hace casi dos décadas
como una confluencia de movimientos campesinos,
indígenas, feministas y urbanos, ha vuelto a encontrarse,
esta vez en Kandy, Sri Lanka, para dar un paso más:
acordar una Agenda Política Común que articule luchas
diversas frente a las múltiples crisis del capitalismo global.
Esa agenda, lejos de ser un listado de demandas, se
constituye en un mapa político que expresa la madurez
de un movimiento internacional que no se limita a resistir,
sino que imagina y construye alternativas sistémicas.

Declaración PanAfricana sobre el futuro de las tecnologías digitales en alimentación y agricultura

Enviado por Veronica Villa el

Las tecnologías no son neutrales; reflejan y reproducen los sistemas de poder. La industria de la inteligencia artificial está emergiendo como una fuerza imperial.

Nosotros, hombres y mujeres participantes de la Primera Reunión Panafricana sobre el Futuro de las Tecnologías Biodigitales en la Alimentación y la Agricultura, celebrada en Addis Abeba, Etiopía, del 2 al 4 de octubre de 2025, y coorganizada por la Alianza para la Soberanía Alimentaria en África (AFSA), la Plataforma Africana de Evaluación de Tecnologías (AfriTAP) y el Grupo ETC, nos reunimos en un evento histórico para afrontar los retos y posibilidades que plantean las tecnologías digitales emergentes.

Temas relacionados: 
Evaluación de tecnología

Organizations denounce Carbon Markets ahead of COP30

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55 movements and organizations from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries published a powerful MANIFESTO rejecting carbon markets and defending territories against an avalanche of projects that are causing damage throughout the region

On October 29, 55 movements and organizations from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries published a powerful MANIFESTO rejecting carbon markets and defending territories against an avalanche of projects that are causing damage throughout the region. This manifesto challenges COP30 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will begin in the first week of November with high-level meetings.

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Declaration: Pan-African Convening on The Future of Biodigital Technologies in Food and Agriculture

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Emerging Technologies • Ecological and Cultural Erosion • Global Governance • Corporate Concentration

We, participants of the First Pan-African Convening on the Future of Biodigital Technologies in Food and Agriculture, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 2–4 October 2025, and co-organized by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and African Technology Assessment Platform (AfriTAP) and the ETC Group, gathered in a landmark event to confront the challenges and possibilities posed by emerging digital technologies.

Temas relacionados: 
Evaluación de tecnología

Optimism is back! 3rd Nyeleni Global Forum update

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Creating a new pathway to global systemic transformation from the ground up

As the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka draws to a close, it’s exciting to reflect on the fact that this country - inhabited and loved by its people from coast to coast, and home to some of the world’s most biodiverse, verdant and abundant forests, rivers and wetlands - is also poised to become the birthplace of a new global meta-movement of social movements committed to bringing health and vitality back to the planet’s communities, countries and climate.

ETC Group reinvigorates its quest to track emerging technologies and scrutinise corporate concentration

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Following its 2025 AGM, ETC Group’s Board and Staff met for four days in Madrid, in early August, to build a new plan of action, laser-focused on challenging corporate concentration and tech ‘broligarchy’ chauvinism
ETC Group board and staff group photo, Plaza Mayor, Madrid

We see a gathering tsunami of emerging (and converging) corporate technologies being super-charged by increasingly rapid developments in digital/AI, bioengineering and geoengineering technologies. The new corporate constellation of a few men with vast personal wealth operating within the existing hegemonic capitalist financial system is also being used to influence key governmental policy-making spaces, sidelining democratic processes and excluding civil society.

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