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Sources Experts & SpokespersonsNews ReleasesGE-contaminated flax seed raises concerns for Canadian organic sector 2009-09-11 Organic Trade Association GE-contaminated flax seed raises concerns for Canadian organic sector. The Organic Trade Association (OTA) in Canada has called the recent discovery of contaminated flax seed in Europe â#ounacceptable... Sources Select ResourcesBanacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and JiguamiandoInterchurch Justice and Peace Commission Article 2012 Hands off the Land Alliance This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato r... Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming FocusWebsite 2009 Connexions Information Sharing Services Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture. EnvironmentSources.comWebsite 2017 Sources Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and importa... Global effects of GM crops questionedVidal, John Article 2011 The Guardian Twenty Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups have published a damning study, saying that GM (genetically modified) crops have failed to increase yield, whil... GM crops: Hunger as the key to world dominationPelaez Vicky Article 2013 The Moscow News Weapons and energy resources are apparently insufficient for total control over the world's nations, power-hungry globalists like David Rockefeller have come up with the idea of using people's daily n... 'Land Grabbing': exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communitiesFilm review Lang, Chris Article 2016 Ecologist Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces. The documentary 'Land Grabbing' investigates what happens when well-financed... Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonizationArticle 2015 The Ecologist Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing millions of small cultivators and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture usi... Monsanto is buying up non-gmo seed companiesIWB Article 2013 Investment Watch A positive trend in recent years is the growing number of gardening enthusiasts choosing to plant gardens using organic and/or heirloom seeds. Monsanto and UkraineGM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton Nelson, Joyce Article 2014 CounterPunch The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, will force that country to permit genetically-modified (GM) crops and genetically-modified o... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015Land seizures and land take-overs Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017Secrecy and Power Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Connexions Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018What are we eating? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 Connexions What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant la... Seeds of Death: Unveiling The Lies of GMOsNull, Gary; Polonetsky, Richard Film 2012 An exposition of the massive public health dangers associated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Twenty-First-Century Land GrabsAccumulation by Agricultural Dispossession Magdoff, Fred Article 2013 Monthly Review Land grabs -- whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as Chin... Sources BookshelfFarmageddonThe True Cost of Cheap Meat Lymbery, Philip; Oakeshott, Isabel Book 2014 An investigation and implication of the global industrial farming industry. The Land GrabbersThe New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Pearce, Fred Book 2012 How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. GrainewsFor Western Canadian farmers and their families. Production-oriented with step by step methods. Includes regular sections dealing with beef cattle, farm mechanics and rural life. |
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