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G8: The Anti-Climate Summit

Walden Bello July 22, 2008 Walden Bello

While drafting the so-called Bali Roadmap during the UN Conference on climate change last December, delegates faced a painful choice. They could specifically mention the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25-40% by 2020 and face the possibility of a U.S. walkout from the negotiations. Or they could drop all mention of targets to keep Washington in the negotiations - and risk of the United States fatally obstructing the process of coming up with a tough regime of mandatory emissions cuts that would have to be in place by the UN's climate meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009.

“The World According to Monsanto”

The Real News Network June 30, 2008 The Real News Network

Monsanto is a world leader in industrial agriculture, providing the seeds for 90 percent of the world’s genetically modified crops. Once a chemical company based in the US, Monsanto has transformed into an international life sciences company, aiming to solve world hunger and protect the environment. Filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, however, exposes the company’s troubling past, in her recent film, The World According to Monsanto. In an interview with The Real News Network, she discusses Monsanto’s controversial practices from a producer of PCBs and Agent Orange to genetically modified seeds and related herbicides. read more

Behind Latin America’s Food Crisis

Laura Carlsen June 4, 2008 Laura Carlsen

Even a year ago, few people would have predicted that a global food crisis would make headlines as one of the major concerns for the future of the world. Yes, critics of agrofuels warned that food shortages and price hikes would result from the headlong rush to divert land from food to fuel production. And climate change experts predicted that global warming would hit small farmers-who even in today's world of industrialized agribusiness still produce much of what we eat-the hardest. Agricultural economists alerted the world to the dangers of leaving the food supply to a highly concentrated international market.

Making a Killing From the Food Crisis

Real News Network May 19, 2008 Real News Network

Patagonia’s Pascua River Threatened By Massive Dam Project

Benjamin Witte April 1, 2008 Benjamin Witte

Pascua River

There is a place in far southern Chile, in the remote region of Aysén, where the long road south - the famed Carreterra Austral - simply comes to an end. Via a joint entity called HidroAysén, two companies are looking to build five massive dams in Aysén that would together generate some 2,750 MW of electricity - roughly equivalent to 20 percent of Chile's current overall generating capacity. However, HidroAysén's plans have generated a formidable backlash.

Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger

Toward Freedom February 14, 2008 Toward Freedom

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Toward Freedom presents a new and comprehensive collection of research and essays on biotechnology. Edited by safe food pioneer Brian Tokar, Gene Traders features analysis of biotechnology and its’ effects on food safety, poverty, starvation, and globalization.

Genetically engineered agriculture is spreading around the world due to global trade agreements and the aggressive tactics of international financial institutions, governments, and agribusiness corporations. In this broad and comprehensive survey, seven authors show how the interplay of trade policy, “development” politics and biotechnology increases dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities. read more