Forcing the Farm
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How Gene Drive Organisms Could Entrench Industrial Agriculture and Threaten Food Sovereignty
» The letter, signed by food movement leaders around the world
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Over 200 Global Food Movement Leaders and Organizations Reject "Gene Drives"
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New Report exposes how a controversial genetic forcing technology is targeting the farm
Rome, 16 October 2018 (World Food Day) – Global food movement leaders and organizations representing hundreds of millions of farmers and food workers today set out their clear opposition to “gene drives” – a controversial new genetic forcing technology. Their call for a stop to this technology accompanies a new report, Forcing the Farm, that lifts the lid on how gene drives may harm food and farming systems.
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Blocking the chain
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“Blocking the chain” critically assesses digital developments in the food and agricultural sector. It analyses the main actors in the digitalisation business and discusses the importance of digitalisation for small-scale farmers and workers along the industrial food chain worldwide.
Between BlackRock and a Hard Place
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Is the Industrial Food Chain Unravelling... or Rewinding?
Immediate stop to climate geoengineering
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Demand by 110 civil society organizations and popular movements
Collective press release by ETC Group, the Indigenous Environmental Network, Friends of the Earth International, La Via Campesina, Climate Justice Alliance and BiofuelWatch.
In a widely-supported Manifesto released today, 23 international organizations, six “Alternative Nobel Prize” recipients, and 87 national organizations from five continents called for a halt to testing and political consideration of climate geoengineering.
Hands Off Mother Earth!
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Manifesto Against Geoengineering
110 civil society organizations and popular movements denounce geoengineering and demand an immediate stop to all open-air experiments. If your organization would like to join the fight against geoengineering and endorse the HOME Manifesto, please send an email to manifesto@geoengineeringmonitor.org.
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Patagonia’s bet on biotech fabrics may threaten livelihoods and ecosystems
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Farmers and environmentalists sound the alarm
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OAKLAND, CA — The fashion and technology sectors alike have been abuzz about high-tech fabrics derived from genetically engineered microorganisms. Most notably, Patagonia Inc. – noted in the past for its support of organic textiles and its opposition to genetic engineering – has surprisingly teamed up with Bay Area based biotech startup Bolt Threads to help propel genetically engineered clothes to market.
Genetically-Engineered Clothes
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Synthetic Biology's New Spin on Fast Fashion
A new generation of genetically engineered fabrics have been hyped as ecologically friendly and sustainable, but revelations in this new report show the profoundly negative impacts they could have on the environment and farmers’ livelihoods worldwide.
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Too Big to Feed: The Short Report
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Mega-mergers and the concentration of power in the agri-food sector
What is corporate concentration, why does it matter for food security, and who are the biggest corporate players in each agrifood sector/"link" in the Industrial Food Chain? This accessible booklet (soon to be available in French and Spanish) answers these questions and more.
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Leading African Biodiversity Advocate Denied Canadian Visa Days Before UN Forum
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As international debate on gene drive technology heats up, Canadian immigration officials deny a key voice
MONTREAL, July 4, 2018 - United Nations biodiversity negotiations are underway in Montreal, but a key African expert is missing from the fray. Ali Tapsoba, President of the organization Terre à Vie in Burkina Faso, was planning to speak at two events on behalf of Burkinabé civil society who oppose the release of gene drive mosquitoes, a controversial new biotechnology, in their communities.
His visa application was denied without explanation by the Canadian embassy in Dakar on Friday.
Media Advisory: New fact sheets reveal status of geoengineering technology development
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Media Advisory: New fact sheets reveal status of geoengineering technology development
June 14, 2018
As climate geoengineering – the hypothetical, intentional manipulation of Earth systems to countereffect some of the symptoms of climate change – is entering the mainstream climate discourse, more and more headlines are claiming that sulphur particles in the stratosphere or massive dumps of iron in the ocean “will save the world from climate change.”
US Attempting to Move Forward with Geoengineering
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Open-air experiments defy global moratorium, could help lock in ‘big bad fix’ for climate
As three major geoengineering experiments move toward real-world tests, ETC Group and GeoengineeringMonitor.org have released new resources and a redesigned website.
Financial Report
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2016-2017
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Financial Report
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2015-2016
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NEWS RELEASE: Europe bows to Bayer-Monsanto... US may follow
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Civil society responds with call for a UN Treaty on Competition
For immediate release: March 20, 2018
Brussels – The European Union’s Competition Directorate appears ready to roll over and approve the controversial merger of Bayer AG (Germany) with Monsanto (USA) within the week. Across the Atlantic, the US Department of Justice is expected to welcome the EU decision and announce its own acquiescence shortly after.
Information Brief: Bugs and Bytes
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Monsanto-Bayer to dominate in Microbials and Big Data-Driven Precision Agriculture
If the Bayer-Monsanto merger is allowed to go through, the resulting company will have a monopoly stake in microbials and big-data enabled precision agriculture technologies, both important new markets for industrial agriculture.
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Movements of Millions Say No to Gene Drives as Brazil Attempts to Legalize Genetic Extinction Technology
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Regulatory change would spread modified genetic traits to wild organisms
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MONTREAL, MEXICO CITY, SÃO PAULO, February 22, 2018—The largest rural movements in Brazil, representing well over a million farmers, are protesting a new Brazilian regulation that would allow release of gene drives, the controversial genetic extinction technology, into Brazil’s ecosystems and farms.
Those who fry the planet and geoengineering
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Those who fry the planet and geoengineering
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