Les Nations Unis reconnaissent les Droits des Paysans
Par Rick Jonasse et Tanya Kerssen
Diet for a Hot Planet: a book talk and reception with Anna Lappe
Family Farmers, Consumer Advocates, and Organized Labor to Feds: Bust Up Big Ag
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March 2, 2010
12:40 PM
CONTACT: Food Policy & Farm Advocates
David Goodner, Iowa CCI, 515.282.0484, david@iowacci.org
Dave Murphy, Food Democracy Now!, 917.968.7369, dave@fooddemocracynow.org
Patty Lovera, Food and Water Watch, 202.683.2465, plover@fwwatch.org
Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition, 202.421.4544, kozer@nffc.net
Food democracy townhall meeting in Ankeny, IA one day prior to the federal anti-trust workshop will push DOJ, USDA, and Congress to bust the trusts and put people before profits
Via Campesina North America calls first public hearing to prepare the presentation of the GM Maize case before international courts
Inauguration of “Transgenic contamination of maize: crime against humanity?”
Delegation (Mexico, United States, Canada) of La Via Campesina, North America Region, upon the occasion of the FAO Conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries.
La politique énergétique américaine alimente l’expansion des agrocarburants en Afrique
Par Rick Jonasse et Tanya Kerssen
U.S. energy policy fuels the “Brazilian-ization” of African agriculture
Tanya Kerssen and Rick Jonasse (Cliquez ici pour lire en français)
Hard lobbying by U.S. corn ethanol and soy biodiesel corporations paid off earlier this month when the Obama administration announced its plan to boost the country's production and consumption of biofuels. The strategy offers little in the way of "change". Rather, it recommits the country to the goal mandated by Congress in 2007 to implement a 36 billion gallon renewable fuel mandate by 2022-more than three times what the U.S. currently produces.
The Biofuels Bailout: (M)ethadone for our Fuel Addiction?
The recent announcement by the Obama Administration of renewed support to the bloated biofuels industry has the Brazilians jumping for joy.
The Brazilians? Wait a minute... Yep, here are the latest headlines from UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association:
Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Welcomes U.S. EPA's Renewable Fuels Rules
PASA's 19th Annual Farming for the Future Conference
The Science Simplified: How genetic material from GMO corn finds its way to our gut
By Krista Beckley
There have been several reports recently about genetic material from GMO corn making its way into soil, animals and insects. (The study these reports refer to appeared in the Journal of Chemical Ecology in July - Hart et. al 2009) The concept of how these genes enter into other organisms and food systems is often convoluted, and worth laying out again for readers who may have questions.