Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture

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Terminator Technology - GURTs
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
Patenting of Life

by Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Pat Roy Mooney

Monsanto's latest flagship technology makes a nonsense of its claim that it seeks to feed the worlds hungry. On the contrary, it threatens to undermine the very basis of traditional agriculture - that
GM rice
GMOs
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
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ENx_Interview_Thai_Rice_Farmer_05.pdf 414.42 KB

Conducted by Ricarda A. Steinbrecher, Ph.D.,

Mr Daoreung Pheudphon is from Kut Chum, Yasothorn Province, North East Thailand. He is 40 years old and has been a rice farmer since his childhood. When I asked him whether his family had been rice
Corporate Interests
Corporate Rights
Power
and Control
Ecological & Social Impacts
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
Genetic Engineering (GE)
Patenting of Life
Genetic Engineering (E&S impacts)

by Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher with Devlin Kuyek and Lucy Michaels

This book demonstrates that a handful of companies have gained an alarming level of control over the food chain through the industrialisation of agriculture, the forces of globalisation, and the
GM rice
GMOs
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
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ENx_GE_rice_PAN-AP_2008.pdf 856.69 KB

by Ricarda A. Steinbrecher

"Rice is the world's most consumed staple food grain, with half the world's people depending on it. It is harvested on about 146 million hectares, representing 10 per cent of global arable land. The
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
GM crops
GMOs
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R. Steinbrecher & A. Lorch

The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch. Since the
Bioenergy / Biomass / Biofuels
Food Security & Sovereignty / Agriculture
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Biofuelwatch, EcoNexus & Global Forest Coalition

The 2011 Report on Price volatility and food security by the HLPE on Food Security and Nutrition provided well-researched and high-quality evidence about the role of biofuels in recent food price

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