By Stacy Malkan, US Right to Know
Massive investments spent promoting and subsidizing commercial seeds and agrichemicals across Africa have failed to fulfill their purpose of alleviating hunger and lifting small-scale farmers out of poverty, according to a new white paper published by the Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute. A report based largely on the research, “False Promises,” was published July 10 by African and German nonprofits that are calling for a shift in support to agroecological farming practices.
Read moreIATP Policy Brief: To the Green Revolution, African farmers say: Time’s up. You’ve had your chance to show what difference you can make. As we face climate change and rising hunger from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is time to take a different path. The future is agroecology. (Also available in French.)
Read moreThe U.N.’s focus on nutritious and affordable diets is welcome given the prevalence of diet-related disease and micronutrient deficiencies in the developing world. But the U.N. missed a key opportunity by focusing only on making nutritious food more affordable, ignoring the reality that the biggest segment of the hungry is farmers. What they most need is crop diversity, which improves their diet diversity. A new report from a broad coalition of non-governmental organizations highlights how policymakers are actively undermining that diversity with programs such as the billion-dollar Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
Read moreAnn Garrison interviews Timothy Wise on why US-style corporate agriculture pushed by billionaire Bill Gates has been disastrous for Africa.
Read moreMy blog from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy summarizes the results of the report, “False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,” based on my research paper, “Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.” The results: “We found no evidence that productivity, incomes or food security were increasing significantly for smallholder households.”
Read moreI was part of an engaging three-person Zoom panel on all that is undervalued in food and agriculture markets, with Paula Daniels of Good Food Purchasing and Barbara Gemmill-Herren of Prescott College. I cautioned us all to avoid commodifying everything by trying to put prices (costs) on things that are truly priceless, like agricultural biodiversity. You can watch it here, with the panel discussion starting around 16:00 (I come in around 22:00). May 22, 2020
Read moreNorman Borlaug, Milk Strikes, and the Green Revolution
Excerpted from Eating Tomorrow, pp. 111–114, New Press, 2019
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Read moreI saw how far-reaching NAFTA’s effects were in Soteapan, a small municipality on the slopes of the Santa Marta volcano in Mexico’s southeastern state of Veracruz.
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Read moreBy Jomo Kwame Sundaram, IPS News
Timothy A. Wise argues that many millions of dollars spent on fertilizers and seed subsidies in Africa – and favoured by African politicians seeking rural votes – have not delivered their promised outcomes.
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The headquarters of the world’s largest charitable foundation stretch along an entire block near downtown Seattle. There’s a plaza at the entrance, and to one side, a wall embossed in elegant gold lettering proclaims “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” (Read full article on Yes! Magazine)
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The Tufts Environmental Studies Program held its first Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture of the semester on Jan. 16, featuring Tim Wise and the findings of his new book titled “Eating Tomorrow: The Battle for the Future of Food in the Climate Crisis”
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Scholar Timothy A. Wise, shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars spent on fertiliser and hybrid seed subsidies by Kenya and other African countries over the past few years have gone down the drain, a new book argues.
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Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers.
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Thanks to a union of land cooperatives, people in Puebla have food sovereignty and education in Nahuatl instead of mega-projects and a Walmart.
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Leaders endorse agroecology as one of the cutting-edge innovations we need to help small-scale farmers adapt to climate change.
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More than a decade after a renewed push for an African Green Revolution began in earnest, and after a decade of program implementation by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), there is an urgent need to examine whether or not there is evidence of a green revolution underway.
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For years, farmers have said free trade policies have harmed them. Will the world finally start listening?
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Climate experts have sounded yet another dire alarm, this time aimed straight at our stomachs. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, on “Climate Change and Land,” warns that meeting the challenges of our climate crisis requires urgent changes in our food systems.
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U.S. policies have created the disasters from which they flee…
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