Cargill, the world’s largest food company, has been secretly amassing land from small farmers in eastern Colombia, despite a law prohibiting the practice. When the two countries signed a free trade agreement last year, Cargill emerged as the owner of 52,574 hectares where it grows corn and soybeans. The small farms in the isolated high…
According to The Grauniad, there’s a big fight going on over who gets to control the $100 billion fund the UN is dispensing to poor countries via its “Climate Change Fund”. Large contracts for “climate change adaptation” works in developing countries might have been awarded by the fund to international companies rather than to host…
Rady Ananda Activist Post At the G8 Summit held two weeks ago at Camp David, President Obama met with private industry and African heads of state to launch the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a euphemism for monocultured, genetically modified crops and toxic agrochemicals aimed at making poor farmers debt slaves to corporations,…
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Australian MP tells it like it is. Well, almost. Unfortunately the climate change debate seems to be divided between those who believe and are in favor of top-down big government interfering in everyones lives and regulating everything we do, and those who think our activities are having little effect so business as usual is in…
A recent Associated Press story shows how UNICEF harms the interests of third world children by using the media to mislead the world. UNICEF, a United Nations organisation (originally called United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) exaggerates the effect on the health of third world children of its activities. UNICEF’s efforts are effectively insignificant compared…
There’s no doubt some truth in all the CO2 propaganda we’re being subjected to. Of course our over-consuming industrial civilization is having a devastating impact on our home, no-one could seriously dispute that, but what our leaders are foisting on us as a solution is just more of the same. The same increase in their…
Not only is the WHO funded by junk food makers like Coca-Cola, Nestle and Unilever, they also have junk food industry ‘experts’ to advise them on things like how to fight obesity! No more needs to be said really, but here is a Daily Mail article about it. (saved as a pdf here World_Health_Organisation_taking_cash_handouts). This…
Just south of the equator, between the soda waters of Tanzania’s Lake Eyasi and the ramparts of the Great Rift Valley, live one of Africa’s last hunter-gatherer peoples. The Hadza value equality above all else and recognize no leaders. http://www.survivalinternational.org/galleries/hadza
It is an odd retirement hobby. Britain’s top soldier, the former commander of British Land Forces and the man who capped his military career by presiding over the funeral of the Queen Mother, has been planting crops in the African bush. Not personally, you understand. But Sir Charles Redmond Watt has been mixing with Chinese…