Bill Gates Aims to Save Africa
Forget Bono. The world's richest man gives away hundreds of millions to foster a new Green Revolution.
by Ronald Bailey
January 29, 2008
Biofuels a Lose-Lose Strategy, Critics Say
by Stephen Leahy
January 26, 2008
BROOKLIN - U.S. biofuels production is driving up food prices around the world, giving billions of poor people a very good reason to hate U.S. policy, say environmentalists.
“The U.S. has led the fight to stem global hunger, now we are creating hunger,” said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington.
Will Agro fuels Usher Famine?
Black Star News
by Sifelani Tsiko
December 14, 2007
Industrialized countries are drawing up ambitious renewable fuel targets to reap huge rewards from the bio-fuels boom while avoiding discussion of the heavy price people in the Global South are paying to help sustain the consumptive oil-based lifestyles of the West.
Agronomists, ecologists, environmentalists and development activists who met recently in Mali called on African governments to resist pressure from the Industrialized North to grow food crops for the production of biodiesel.
"Frankenfoods" or Brave New World?
The genetically engineered foods question
In The Canadian Nation
2007-9-14
by Kim Lundgren
Sceptics claim that the so-called "Frankenstein foods" pose an insidious threat to the environment and to the world's food supply. Proponents envision a future in which the wonders of biogenetics benefit humankind. Consumers worldwide fear yet-to-be-determined health risks.
The debate surrounding the genetic engineering of food has escalated in the past six months. Citing conflicting research, opposing camps trade accusations of hysteria and corporate greed.
So which is it? Here's how the sides line up.
The Great Biofuel Hoax
Touted by politicians and industry as "green" energy, biofuels come with a high price tag.
Alternet June 25, 2007
by Eric Holt-Gimenez
Biofuels invoke an image of renewable abundance that allows industry, politicians, the World Bank, the United Nations and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to present fuel from corn, sugarcane, soy and other crops as a replacement for oil that will bring about a smooth transition to a renewablefuel economy.
Portuguese translation of UC's Biotech Benefactors: The Power of Big Finance and Bad Ideas
Benfeitores de biotecnologia e biocombustível
da Universidade da Califórnia: O poder de
grandes finanças e idéias más.
Eric interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation
September 14, 2006
Food First executive director, Eric Holt-Gimenez was interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation on September 14 to respond to the A Green Revolution for Africa project launched by the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations.
listen to the interview here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6068582.
Excerpt from a New York Times article, "Foundations Join in Africa Agriculture Push"
September 13, 2006
By STEPHANIE STROM
"Critics of the Green Revolution have condemned it on a variety of grounds, among them that it has had a harmful effect on animal life and the environment with pesticides it has introduced and that it promotes capitalist market systems."
Excerpt from a Seattle Times article about the Gates/Rockefeller charities
Excerpt from an article in the Seattle Times by Kristi Heim and Sandi Doughton titled "Gates, Rockefeller charities take aim at African Hunger"
Melissa Moore Interviewed on Hunger in the Horn of Africa
Food First Program Coordinator Melissa Moore was interviewed about hunger in the Horn of Africa on WBAI's morning show Wake Up Call.
Listen to the interview by clicking here.