Peasants still feed the world, even if FAO claims otherwise
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has bumbled into a controversy over whether peasants or agribusiness feed most of the world.
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In memory of Dr. Arpad Pusztai
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An inspiration for scientific integrity, principles and honesty
ETC Group is sad to have learned of the passing of Dr Arpad Pusztai on 17th December this Year. Dr Pustzai was a much respected, highly published UK government food safety scientist originally from Hungary. In 1998 his research, which raised questions about the safety of Genetic Engineering in potatoes, caused a political storm, cost him his job and became the lightning rod for a fierce public debate and popular revolt against GM foods in the UK .
Did you know that the digitalization of agriculture could affect farmers’ rights?
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Digital agriculture, as being proposed by giant agribusiness and data companies, should come with a warning for farmers, farm workers and food vendors. Read our blog below to find out about why in more detail (with examples) and about alternative approaches (also with some real world, feasible examples). But if you are short of time, check out our bullet point ‘what to watch out for’ summary:
Farmers:
Disruption! A battle for the future of food
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Introducing ETC Group's new board game
Who decides the future of food? When politicians, companies and others talk about ‘the food system’, they include the work of growing, producing and distributing food. But there is more than one way of organising a food system. Over the last few decades, the way in which people grow, share and eat food around the world has become a tale of two conflicting food systems – which we call the Industrial Food Chain and the Peasant Food Web. We created the game Disruption! to bring to life the tension between these two food systems and reveal the dangerous dynamics it creates.
Life, the Pluriverse and everything
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Episode 3 of our new podcast mini-series "Spanner in the Works"
In celebration of United Nations World Philosophy Day 2021, ETC Group presents its third and final podcast in the "Spanner in the System" series, focussing on the philosophical underpinnings of corporate visions for disruptive technology.
You can listen to it on our podcast channels on Apple, Google, Spotify and YouTube, and here.
COP26 resembles global trade fair for geoengineers, Big Ag and Big Data
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Press release
For immediate release
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
ETC Group and Indigenous Environmental Network denounce plans for geoengineering technologies in US-China Declaration
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PRESS RELEASE
A poisoned arrow for Food and Climate Policy
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Biden and UAE set ‘Net Zero trap’ at COP26 with ‘AIM for Climate’ launch
For immediate release
Glasgow, Tuesday 2 November 2021
Volcanic Disruptions
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Episode 2 of our new “Spanner in the System” podcast mini-series
Find out what geoengineering is, why it's so dangerous, and why the idea of these largely non-existent technologies is being used as an alibi for the fossil fuel industry to continue extracting and polluting.
You can listen to it on our podcast channels on Apple, Google, Spotify and YouTube, and here.
Geoengineering and the ‘net-zero’ con at COP26
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Risky geoengineering schemes are being promoted at COP26
Summary:
As big oil states plan to promote energy-hungry agtech as a ’climate solution’ at COP26, it’s time to question their AIM
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By ETC Group
The USA and the United Arab Emirates both have vested interests in finding ways to justify continuing to extract and sell their vast supplies of oil. It is perhaps not coincidental then, that these two countries are planning a high-profile launch for what is likely to become a controversial climate and agtech initiative, “Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM4C)”, at UNFCCC’s COP26 in Glasgow in November.
Banana-drama
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Episode 1 of our new “Spanner in the System” podcast mini-series
Why not listen to the first episode of our new “Spanner in the System” podcast mini-series during your lunch break today? As we mark World Food Day (16 October), it’s a good time to pause and reflect on our food and where it comes from. Our first podcast, in our new mini-series on disruptive tech, produced in the Asia-Pacific region, does just that!
Food Sovereignty and Digitalization of Food Systems
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12 October - Event organized by ETC Group and GRAIN
(French below, Spanish here)
No to Nature-Based Solutions!
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Collective statement
This September 27, groups call on movements and organizations committed to climate, environmental and social justice to sign statement unequivocally rejecting “Nature-Based Solutions” and all offset schemes.
Fancy a technofix mess for dinner?
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Why we boycotted the UN Food Systems Summit
In solidarity with all the peasant farmers, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, agricultural workers, family farmers and researchers who boycotted the Food System Summit we blacked out our website for the duration of the Food System Summit (FSS).
The rejection of the Food System Summit (FSS) by so many people, activists, organisations and movements around the world shows that the defence of food sovereignty remains strong.
Join ETC Group at the People’s Counter-Mobilization to Transform Corporate Food Systems
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To oppose the corporate hijacking of the Food Systems Summit, the people’s counter-mobilization offers an opportunity for civil society to connect their struggles and fight together for a better world based on mutual respect, social justice, equity, solidarity and harmony with Mother Earth.
Hijacking food systems: technofix takeover at the FSS
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The wrong kind of Food Systems Summit
Our latest communiqué looks at how the Food Systems Summit (FSS) planned for the fall of 2021 is not about changing food systems, but about spinning a story that props up and expands the industrial food chain at the expense of other food systems. The FSS’s proponents argue that the “food system” is broken, that population growth and climate change mean that we will not be able to feed everyone, and that only new technological developments can save us.
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New video: #SayNo2SolarGeo
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Warnings about solar geoengineering
We are excited to share #SayNo2Solar, a new video featuring Greta Thunberg, Michael Mann, Vandana Shiva, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Bill McKibben, Jennie Stephens, Naomi Klein, Tom Goldtooth and Åsa Larsson Blind. Watch the video to listen to their warnings about the dangers of solar geoengineering.
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2) Visit www.stopsolargeo.org to learn more
Solar Geoengineering
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Warnings from scientists, indigeous peoples, youth and climate activists
Once relegated to the fringe of the climate debate, plans to use solar geoengineering to mask rising temperatures are receiving increasing attention from some scientists, governments, and the media. Catchy headlines about silver bullet fixes often downplay the real and profound risks that such technologies pose — including potentially devastating harm to ecosystems, increased droughts and extreme weather events, and the disruption of food production for millions of people around the world.
Leading Climate Scientists, Climate Activists, Indigenous Peoples, and Youth Speak on the Risks of Solar Geoengineering
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Panels to discuss the growing risks and unequal impact of dangerous technological fixes
Once relegated to the fringe of the climate debate, proposals to use solar geoengineering to mask the impacts of planetary warming are receiving increasing attention from scientists, the government, and the media. While conversations often center around “silver bullet fixes” they too frequently downplay the real and profound risks that such technologies pose. These impacts would affect all of us but would fall most heavily on Indigenous Peoples and communities in the Global South.
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