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The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Nothing New About Ignoring Africa's Farmers

Posted May 23rd, 2012 by admin

By Eric Holt-Giménez, originally published by Huffington Post, May 23, 2012

How Your College Is Selling Out to Big Ag

Posted May 21st, 2012 by admin

Photo is the Cargill Building - Microbial & Plant Genomics, University of MN.

Cargill Building - Microbial & Plant Genomics, U of MN

Mother Jones blog by Tom Philpott, May 9, 2012
Read the entire blog including charts at http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/05/how-agribusiness-dominat...

Last week, the University of Illinois' College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) in Champaign-Urbana made a momentous announcement: it has accepted a $250,000 grant from genetically modified seed/agrichemical giant Monsanto to create an endowed chair for the "Agricultural Communications Program" it runs with the College of Communications.

Bayer Pesticides Kill Bees

Posted May 21st, 2012 by admin

By Yvette Cabrera

Letter from African Civil Society Critical of Foreign Investment in African Agriculture at G8 Summit

Posted May 21st, 2012 by admin

Presented by Mamadou Cissokho
Honorary President of ROPPA
President Steering Committee CDP/CSO on behalf of farmers who are members of the organizations listed below

15 May 2012

Mr. President (of the African Union),

Please allow a West African peasant to share with you his preoccupations in the run-up to the G8 Symposium on food security to be held in Washington on 18-19 May 2012 and the G8 on 20 May 2012 at Camp David. Two events at which the food security of our continent will be discussed, following Aquila in 2008 and Paris in 2011.