FISHERY AGREEMENT BETWEEN EUROPEAN UNION AND MOROCCO ILLEGAL
By : Diaspora Saharaui - Wednesday February 9, 2011 Presse release Beside the coast of Western Sahara - which is illegally occupied by Morocco - fishing vessels from member states of the EU are taking part in the exploitation of the fishery resources. The Fishery Partnership Agreement between the EU and Morocco - which has to be renewed regularly - serves as a justification. The agreement is written in a way that it mentions only the fishery resources of Morocco, but does not exclude explicitly the fishing grounds of Western Sahara. Since (...)
read more, comments... Towards the global food crisis?
By : gorraiz germán lopez - Saturday July 24, 2010 The shortage of basic agricultural products for food (wheat, corn, rice, sorghum and millet) and the increase of such bestial products in world markets that had the tip of iceberg in 2007, will presumably "in crescendo" along the next decade and reached its zenith in the horizon of 2018. In reaching that crisis, (whose first sketches and are profiled and finish with crudely drawn at the end of the decade) have contributed the following elements: Economic Development suicide of Third World (...)
read more, comments... Farmer sues USDA, government accuse him with authoritative threats
By : Monica Davis - Tuesday March 16, 2010 According to civil rights activist Eddie Slaughter, April 14th will mark 11 years of acknowledged bias and legal settlements in the long-standing black farmer class action lawsuit. Admitting errors in the past lawsuit, the federal government has agreed to pay some of those who were left out of the Pigford Case $50,000 to right some of the wrongs of de facto USDA institutional racism. Many black farmers say the amount is way too low, while critics claim the lawsuit is just another (...)
read more, comments... Australia ignores agriculture GHGs, commits to >50% of current GHG emissions FOREVER & kills Copenhagen
By : Dr Gideon Polya - Wednesday November 18, 2009 Climate criminal Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and the world’s biggest coal exporter. With the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference only weeks away, Australia has decided to completely and permanently ignore its huge agricultural GHG emissions as well as ignoring GHGs from its world-leading coal exports. US lackey, climate criminal Apartheid Australia has effectively sabotaged the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference before it has (...)
read more, comments... With Amanda Villatoro, of CSA: CRF must be recognized as an occupational illness
By : Giorgio Trucchi - Rel-UITA - Friday August 21, 2009 http://www.rel-uita.org/agricultura... On July 26, a large delegation of trade union representatives from different countries was invited by the trade unions active in Ingenio San Antonio (ISA), a sugar mill owned by Nicaragua Sugar Estate Ltd., company member of the Pellas Group, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista Confederation of Workers (CST) and inform about the content of a controversial agreement signed between the company and three trade unions. This agreement was (...)
read more, comments... Pesticides and preservatives causing Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other ailments
By : Monica Davis - Wednesday July 15, 2009 by Monica Davis Many chemicals we commonly use are suspected of generating this increase in brain proteins, including pesticides, fertilizers and food preservatives. A new study found that a chemical ingredient that has been used as a food preservative contributes to several diseases. Time and again, the chemicals we use in agriculture, food preparation and medicine have proven that there is a price to pay for convenience. The convenience of pest and weed free crops, the convenience of (...)
read more, comments... Dirt Between My Toes—the Need for an Urban Agricultural Policy
By : Monica Davis - Friday June 26, 2009 In this day of mega, modern, and super-automated food production, the spirituality of food, the essence of our connection with the Great Mystery, through the food production and cooking process has been destroyed. It is imperative that we reclaim our spiritual appreciation of food and the process of growing, cultivating, preparing and cooking the food that sustains us. I have always felt that the way we procure food today is unhealthy, both spiritually and physically. Somehow, we have (...)
read more, comments... 82 Year Old Black Terrorism Victim Accused of Making Threats
By : Monica Davis - Sunday May 3, 2009 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/20... Harry Young, an 82 year old black farmer from Owensboro, Kentucky was arrested and released on $50,000 bond in connection with allegations of threatening US Department of Agriculture employees. terroristic threatening. It all stems from a contested foreclosure and sale of his family farm in 2005. Young was arrested over the weekend on allegations that he threatened a federal employee of a farm agency last week via phone. Supporters are questioning (...)
read more, comments... Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture
By : cryptogon - Sunday December 21, 2008 We have just lost cabin pressure, and I don’t mean on the Monsanto corporate jet that Tom Vilsack uses. Change We Can Believe In: Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture December 18th, 2008 The fever dream reality of the Obama hive mind goes something like this: Obama is just pretending to be evil so that he can get into power, but then the Hope and Change, etc. will flow. —The Cognitive Mechanism Behind Political Fundamentalism… And (...)
read more, comments... Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback
By : Solve et Coagula - Monday December 1, 2008 The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback by James Petras Global Research, December 1, 2008 "The deal South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics is negotiating with the Madagascar Government looks rapacious…The Madagascan case looks neo-colonial…The Madagascan people stand to lose half of their arable land." Financial Times Editorial, November 20, 2008 "Cambodia is in talks with several Asian and Middle Eastern (...)
read more, comments... Bolivia: Agrarian Elite Foments Coup (Rise of Food Fascism)
Friday July 4, 2008 countercurrents.org Bolivia Rising 1 July, 2008 By Roger Burbach Source: www.cubaencuentro.com Like many third world countries Bolivia is experiencing food shortages and rising food prices attributable to a global food marketing system driven by multinational agribusiness corporations. With sixty percent of the Bolivian population living in poverty and thirty-three percent in extreme poverty, the price of the basic food canasta—including wheat, rice, corn, soy oil and potatoes, (...)
read more, comments... Destroying African Agriculture By Walden BELLO
By : Emily - Wednesday June 11, 2008 Foreign Policy In Focus 07 June, 2008 Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more primordial problem has been the conversion of economies that are largely food-self-sufficient into chronic food importers. Here the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) figure as much more important (...)
read more, comments... Iraq : Animals Too Struggle for Survival by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
By : Emily - Friday June 6, 2008 Inter Press Service (IPS) June 05, 2008 FALLUJAH, Jun 5 (IPS) - Amidst the huge and growing death toll, it has been easy to forget that animals, in their own way, are finding it hard to survive in Iraq. "Like human beings, animals find it very hard to stay alive now," Dr. Sammy Hashim, a veterinarian who lives and works west of Baghdad, between Fallujah and the capital city, told IPS. "Naturally, no one cares for the poor animals when nobody seems to care even for human beings under the (...)
read more, comments... Cargill : A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming
By : Emily - Friday May 16, 2008 International giant Cargill is one of a relatively small number of powerful corporations that control the global agricultural system. Cargill, among those with the widest and deepest influence, describes itself as an “international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. With 158,000 employees in 66 countries, the company is committed to using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with customers to help them succeed.” Still in family (...)
read more, comments... "The Great GM Crops Myth" , By Geoffrey Lean
By : Harry - Monday April 21, 2008 The Independent/UK April 20, 2008 Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis. The study - carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt - has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the (...)
read more, comments... " We Feed The World" ("Le marché de la Faim") (film, 95mn)
By : Emily - Monday April 21, 2008 The entire film: http://internationalnews.over-blog....
read more, comments... Gen Y, Food
By : Dan Stafford - Thursday April 17, 2008 Upon watching "Gen Y," ( , air date 04/22/2008 at 9pm Eastern & Pacific, run time 30 minutes) my first reaction was to want to defend my own generation and the one before - and it shames me to say that. It’s not that my generation or the previous one haven’t thought of environmentalism, because most of us have, just not on the scale or with the commitment Gen Y presents. At least, not yet. What I wish my first reaction had been, and what my second reaction was, way to go, (...)
read more, comments... Rush to biofuels is driving up price of food
By : Emily - Wednesday April 16, 2008 Independent.co.uk Saturday, 12 April 2008 The other global crisis, By Paul Vallely A demonstrator eats grass in front of a U.N. Brazilian peacekeeping soldier during a protest against the high cost of living in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Source: Boston.com The world’s most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit crunch, another crisis, far more grave, is facing the (...)
read more, comments... World food price crisis - US, UK, EU, Oz Biofuel- & CO2-driven Food Genocide
By : Dr Gideon Polya - Thursday April 3, 2008 A global food price crisis, a global food crisis, now threatens billions of people in the Developng World with famine and starvation. This catastrophe is being driven by the greed of Western countries for the profits from biofuel and carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution . The resource-greedy, racist and genocidal UK, EU, Australia (Oz) and US are threatening much of the world with Climate Genocide and with Food Genocide. In British-ruled India during the Second World War about 6-7 million (...)
read more, comments... Vandana Shiva on Farmer Suicides, the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, Wal-Mart in India
By : Internationalnews - Saturday February 9, 2008 We speak with world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva. A physicist and ecologist, Shiva is author of many books, her latest is “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.” [rush transcript] In India, more than three hundred farmers climbed water tanks in the country’s central Vidarbha region, many of them threatening to commit suicide unless the government fulfilled their demands to lift them out of poverty. Throughout India, more and more (...)
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