Christine Dann sends a fine nugget of news from New Zealand, and an uplifting one to boot. Given that the last story was about how corporations profit from inducing neuroses in schoolgirls, it’s wonderful to see that the opposite also, albeit rarely, applies.
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The Bangkok Post carries two fine articles on Nyéléni : the 2007 World Summit on Food Sovereignty by Supara Janchitfah. Here’s Planting Seeds for Mother Earth and below you’ll find Unconventional Gathering. Keep Reading »
From Food First comes an urgent action in defence of farmer leaders in Chihuahua. Send it to the Mexican embassy in the US, UK , Canada, or your own home country today.
It’s biofuels a-go-go here at Stuffed and Starved with yet another post on the theme. That the wires are buzzing with news about biofuels is welcome, though. It means the newsagencies are catching up with the struggles in the fields.
Following up on yesterday’s post here’s some more biofuels from Brazil.
The Myth of Biofuels
Here’s something that has just come over the wires. It’s a statement from some of the most important social movements in Latin America, and it’s a deep indictment of biofuels.
The Brazilian ‘biofuels’ miracle has been powered by sugar cane. All along, those in the fields have known the cost of the biofuel venture.It’s often forgotten that biofuels need to be grown somewhere. And when they are, they’re not grown in a mom-and-pop scatter-a-few-seeds-on-the-ground-and-soon-you’ll-have-a-gas-tree sort of way. It’s big, industry and monoculture. It’s a multimillion dollar affair. And, in Brazil, it’s an engine of exploitation and environmental destruction. Here’s the text.
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Edmittance:+:Joe Dunckley
The 2007 World Summit on Food Sovereignty has come to an end. Of the many good things at the conference’s website is one of the best definitions of Food Sovereignty. Here are the edited highlights from the Declaration, to which 500 representatives from over 80 countries signed their names:
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