Agroecology

From Bill Gates to the Great Refusal – Farmers on the Frontline

August 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Agriculture, Corporatism, India

by Colin Todhunter, published on Countercurrents, July 27, 2022 Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate. Within just a few generations, however, for many people across the world, their link with the land has been severed. Food now arrives pre-packaged (often precooked), preserved with chemicals and contains harmful pesticides, micro-plastics,[…]

War and Food

March 29, 2022 UNAC Editor GMO Argriculture, Latin America, Public Health, Shortages of Supplies, Toxic Chemicals, War on the Poor

by Silvia Ribeiro, published on Resumen, March 26, 2022 Food prices rising rapidly, apparently as a consequence of the war in Russia and Ukraine is having serious impact for many populations, exposing the global vulnerability in which the industrial agri-food system dominated by transnational corporations places us. According to United Nations sources, we are on the verge of a new[…]

Living in Epoch-Defining Times: Food, Agriculture and the New World Order

January 18, 2022 UNAC Editor Agroecology, Capitalism, Global Economics, GMO Argriculture

by Colin Todhunter, published on Countercurrents, January 6, 2022 Farmerless farms manned by driverless machines, monitored by drones and doused with chemicals to produce commodity crops from patented genetically engineered seeds for industrial ‘biomatter’ to be processed and constituted into something resembling food. Data platforms, private equity firms, e-commerce giants and AI-controlled farming systems. This is the future that big agritech[…]

Challenging the Flawed Premise Behind Pushing GMOs into Indian Agriculture

January 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Genetically Modified Crops, GMO Argriculture

by Colin Todhunter, published on Countercurrents, January 17, 2020 A common claim is that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are essential to agriculture if we are to feed an ever-growing global population. Supporters of genetically engineered (GE) crops argue that by increasing productivity and yields, this technology will also help boost farmers’ incomes and lift many out of poverty. Although in[…]