Seeds, Soil and Small farmers vital to the resurgence of Greece

On July 29, 2015

By Dr Vandana Shiva – Yet it is the farms that the European banks want to destroy […] increasing taxes on farmers is one element of the new […]

How Monsanto wrote and broke laws to enter India

On July 27, 2015

By Dr Vandana Shiva — India’s laws do not permit patents on seeds and in agriculture. But that hasn’t stopped Monsanto from collecting […]

African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal

On July 12, 2015

The underlying imperatives are to increase corporate seed imports and facilitate the monopoly by foreign companies of local seed […]

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

On July 11, 2015

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Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food

On July 1, 2015

By Dr Vandana Shiva – Agroecology, not the mechanistic and blind paradigm of industrial agriculture, is the truly scientific approach […]

Draft ARIPO Plant Variety Protocol Undermines Farmers’ Right to Save, Exchange & Sell Seeds

On June 25, 2015

An analysis by Sangeeta Shashikant (Third World Network) — A new draft legal framework for […]

Soil, papered over

On June 19, 2015

The rhetoric for taking over food systems and seed supply is always based on ‘improved seed’. But industrial seeds are only ‘improved’ in the context of higher dependence on chemicals […]

ARIPO Shuns African Farmers over PVP Protocol Abolishing Farmers’ Rights to Seeds

On June 15, 2015

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), 9 June 2015 Source: http://afsafrica.org/aripo-shuns-african-farmers-over-pvp-protocol-abolishing-farmers-rights-to-seeds/ MEDIA ADVISORY: ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA […]

Press Release – GM Biocolonization in Costa Rica

On June 9, 2015

PRESS RELEASE Personalities from the eco-scientific and organic agriculture environments are speaking up against the letter from the American Embassy, […]

Alert on Seed Law in Venezuela

On June 6, 2015

The objective of this law is to […] protect […] free circulation and use of seed, […] valorization of […] local seed […] prohibiting […] the entrance into the country and […] production of transgenic seeds […]

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