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Silent but Deadly – Estimating the real climate impact of agribusiness corporations

Type: Reports
Date: 6 December 2015
Campaigns: Food

The agribusiness industry presents itself as part of the solution to climate change. The major firms spend significant sums to promote the message that corporate, industrial agriculture is compatible with fighting climate change. But they are wrong. This report demonstrates that multinational agribusiness companies are part of the problem, not the solution, by revealing the true extent of their overall contribution to dangerous climate change. So far, most agribusiness companies have got away with underestimating their true impact because they only declare their direct emissions. Many emissions are not direct, but arise from the end use of their products or from their supply chains.

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Food fight – the story of rich country hypocrisy at the WTO

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 4 December 2015
Campaigns: Food

Nairobi will be the scene of an important battle between richer and poorer countries in December when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meets for its ministerial. On one side, countries […]

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Growing evidence against the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 2 July 2015
Campaigns: Food

Through the G7’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, known as the New Alliance, the Department for International Development (DfID) is using £600 million of aid to facilitate corporate […]

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Film: whoever controls seeds, controls the food system

Type: Other
Date: 22 June 2015
Campaigns: Food

The small-scale farmers’ right to store and share seeds, in countries like Ghana, is under threat by the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition – an aid programme supported […]

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Statement warning the G7 of the threat that the New Alliance holds to small-scale farmers

Type: Other
Date: 2 June 2015
Campaigns: Food

We, social movements, grassroots organizations and civil society organizations engaged in the defense of food sovereignty and the right to food in Africa, met at the World Social Forum in […]

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Ghana’s seeds under attack from G7 initiative

By: Heidi Chow
Date: 15 May 2015
Campaigns: Food

“My mother gave me some seeds to plant. And I’m also giving those seeds to my children to plant. So that is ongoing, every time we transfer to our children.  […]

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The fight for seed freedom

By: Heidi Chow
Date: 23 March 2015
Campaigns: Food

Today US AID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an invite-only, secret meeting with aid donors and big seed companies to discuss a strategy to make it […]

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From the roots up – How agroecology can feed Africa

Type: Reports
Date: 3 March 2015
Campaigns: Food

Sympathy with organic food production is at an all-time high. Perhaps “It’s a nice idea, when you can afford it” sums up the approach of many people. But extending these […]

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Five reasons why seed diversity is good

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 February 2015
Campaigns: Food

When farmers plant a variety of seeds in their field they are thought of as backward by agribusiness corporations which maintain that genetically modified (GM) and hybrid varieties are the […]

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The Dominion Farms’ land grab in Nigeria

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 28 January 2015
Campaigns: Food

Farmers in Nigeria’s Taraba State are being forced off lands that they have farmed for generations to make way for US company Dominion Farms to establish a 30,000 ha rice […]

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