Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa. In both cases, fancy technology is not enough. In both cases, fancy technology is not enough. Turns out it’s not just a matter of transferring technology, satellite or otherwise. Likewise Bt cotton in India.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Author Peter Scholliers looks at everything from policies and trends that shaped consumer preferences to technological advancements. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Today, that number is less than 1 percent. Editors Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

On a summer day in downtown Salinas, California, a group of farmers, biotechnology start-ups and pesticide corporations gathered to talk about the benefits of biology. This extreme lack of transparency precludes the type of informed, scientific debate that we should be having about this new technology.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

It alleges that Mexico’s decree constitutes a trade violation that infringes on the superseding rights of US farmers and biotechnology companies. Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If

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Maize Science Crop Food 144

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. The Corporate Consolidation of Seed Breeding Over the past decades, we have seen a hyper consolidation of the seed market with over 50% of seed sales coming from companies that are owned by four large biotechnology corporations. Source: Philip H.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 97