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The Industrial Food Chain or the Peasant Food Webs?With Climate Change…Who Will Feed Us?The Industrial Food Chain/The Peasant Food WebThe Food Systems We Don’t Know We Don’t Know – Fifty years ago, at...
View ArticleLetter Sent to Pope Francis Regarding GMOs
His HolinessPope FrancisApostolic Palace00120 Vatican CityApril 30, 2014Your Holiness:With the utmost respect, we address Your Holiness regarding a topic of grave concern and global scope—genetically...
View ArticlePeasants, Scientists ask Pope Francis to Intervene on GM Seeds
Press ReleaseAugust 14, 2014www.etcgroup.orgAt the request of major peasant organizations, and with the permission of Pope Francis, a group of scientists and agricultural experts have now made public a...
View ArticleRegulate Synthetic Biology Now: 194 Countries
SynBio industry’s wild west days are numberedPress ReleasePYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA– In a unanimous decision of 194 countries, the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) today formally...
View ArticleGlobal Agribusiness Mergers NOT a Done Deal
New ETC Group report, Breaking Bad, shows how Dow-DuPont, Monsanto and Syngenta seed and pesticide deals could be blocked by Global SouthThe $130 billion Dow-DuPont merger announced last week has...
View ArticleSino-Genta?
And soon there will be three. Joy of six heads towards a “ménage à trois”For more background, see ETC Group’s recent report: Breaking Bad: Big Ag Mega-Mergers in Play[1]For a decade, six...
View ArticleThe Industrial Food Chain's Recipe for a Box Lunch
Who’s going to eat whose lunch … the Hardware Grunts or the Software Gurus? The Battle for the control of agricultural inputs is just beginning. Briefing Note, May 31st, 2016Bayer’s $62 billion bid for...
View ArticleThe Monsanto–Bayer tie-up is just one of seven; Mega-Mergers and Big Data...
Policymakers could still block the agribiz mergers; peasants and farmers will continue the fight for seeds and rightsWednesday’s confirmation that Monsanto and Bayer have agreed to a $66 billion merger...
View ArticleNEWS RELEASE: Europe bows to Bayer-Monsanto... US may follow
Civil society responds with call for a UN Treaty on CompetitionFor immediate release: March 20, 2018Brussels – The European Union’s Competition Directorate appears ready to roll over and approve the...
View ArticleToo Big to Feed: The Short Report
Mega-mergers and the concentration of power in the agri-food sectorWhat is corporate concentration, why does it matter for food security, and who are the biggest corporate players in each agrifood...
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