By Jomo Kwame Sundaram, IPS News
Timothy A. Wise argues that many millions of dollars spent on fertilizers and seed subsidies in Africa – and favoured by African politicians seeking rural votes – have not delivered their promised outcomes.
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(Originally published by Yes! Magazine)
The headquarters of the world’s largest charitable foundation stretch along an entire block near downtown Seattle. There’s a plaza at the entrance, and to one side, a wall embossed in elegant gold lettering proclaims “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” (Read full article on Yes! Magazine)
Read moreResearch presents need to transition to ecological agriculture →
(Originally published by Tufts Daily)
The Tufts Environmental Studies Program held its first Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture of the semester on Jan. 16, featuring Tim Wise and the findings of his new book titled “Eating Tomorrow: The Battle for the Future of Food in the Climate Crisis”
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(Originally published by U.S. Right To Know)
Scholar Timothy A. Wise, shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds.
Read moreNew book says farm input subsidies deepen poverty →
(Originally published by Daily Nation)
Hundreds of billions of dollars spent on fertiliser and hybrid seed subsidies by Kenya and other African countries over the past few years have gone down the drain, a new book argues.
Read moreThe Battle for the Future of Food in Africa →
(Originally published by Common Dreams)
Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers.
Read moreResisting GMOs and Preserving Indigenous Culture in Rural Mexico
(Originally published on Yes! Magazine)
Thanks to a union of land cooperatives, people in Puebla have food sovereignty and education in Nahuatl instead of mega-projects and a Walmart.
Read moreRome Summit Takes Bold Step Toward Agroecology →
(Originally published by Common Dreams)
Leaders endorse agroecology as one of the cutting-edge innovations we need to help small-scale farmers adapt to climate change.
Read moreAGRA At 10 Years: Searching For Evidence Of A Green Revolution →
(Originally published by AFSA)
More than a decade after a renewed push for an African Green Revolution began in earnest, and after a decade of program implementation by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), there is an urgent need to examine whether or not there is evidence of a green revolution underway.
Read moreIn 2003, a Farmer Killed Himself to Protest Globalization. Little Has Changed →
(Originally published by Vice)
For years, farmers have said free trade policies have harmed them. Will the world finally start listening?
Read moreBig Ag Is Sabotaging Progress on Climate Change
(Originally published on Wired)
Climate experts have sounded yet another dire alarm, this time aimed straight at our stomachs. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, on “Climate Change and Land,” warns that meeting the challenges of our climate crisis requires urgent changes in our food systems.
Read moreDear Democrats: We owe migrants more than “decriminalization”
(Originally published on Medium)
U.S. policies have created the disasters from which they flee…
Read moreThe Gospel According to Agribusiness →
(Originally published by Real Food Media)
From Iowa to the world, Eating Tomorrow author Timothy Wise muses on the genesis of industrial agriculture.
Read moreWorld Hunger Is on the Rise
(Originally published on Heated)
For the third straight year, U.N. agencies have documented rising levels of severe hunger in the world, affecting 820 million people. More than 2 billion suffer “moderate or severe” food insecurity.
Read moreOpinion | Agroecology as Innovation
(Originally published by Food Tank)
On July 3, the High Level Panel of Experts of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its much-anticipated report on agroecology in Rome. The report signals the continuing shift in emphasis in the UN agency’s approach to agricultural development.
Read moreMonocultures of the Genetically Modified Mind: My surreal encounter with Monsanto in Mexico →
Eating tomorrow: A conversation with Timothy Wise →
(Originally published by Leah Douglas, Fern AG)
For decades, conversations about global agricultural production have revolved around one question: How do we feed the world? Those conversations have often been driven by philanthropies, governments, and companies that share an interest in the industrialization of agriculture.
Read moreFarming First: A Recipe to Feed a Crowded World →
(Originally published by Heated)
Policymakers from Mexico to Malawi, India to Mozambique, routinely advocated large-scale, capital-intensive agricultural projects as the solution to widespread hunger and low agricultural productivity, oblivious to the reality that such initiatives generally displace more farmers than they employ.
Read moreLa batalla por la alimentación del futuro →
(Originally published by Alejandro Nadal, La Jornada)
Cómo vamos a asegurar la alimentación de una población de 8 mil 500 millones de personas para 2030?
Read moreTimothy A. Wise dissects the dangers of agribusiness →
(Originally published by Emmanuel Jones, Quaker Campus)
Many governmental agricultural initiatives place corporate profits over the needs and well-being of the farming communities most directly impacted by them. Wise saw this trend amidst the 2007 – 2008 global food price crisis.
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