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Messengers of Gates’ Agenda: How the Cornell Alliance for Science Spreads Disinformation on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

December 1, 2020
Farmers practicing agroecology in Kenya

by Heather Day/AGRA Watch In October of this year, the Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS) hosted a webinar on “agroecology,” a concept that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Agroecology is a transdisciplinary science, …

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(Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries, Environment

Gates Ag One: The Recolonisation Of Agriculture

November 16, 2020
Indian Farmers

by Navdanya and Navdanya International In January 2020, the Gates foundation launched “The Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations LLC”, also known as “Gates Ag One”. Gates Ag One was formulated to be a subsidiary …

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(Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries, Health

The Biosecurity Myth That Is Destroying Small Farming

November 10, 2020

by Lucile Leclair Chen Yun’s pigs stopped eating, then developed a fever. Within a week, all 10,000 on his farm in Jiangxi, in southeast China, had died of African swine fever (ASF). In 2018-19 the …

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Biotechnology, Commentaries, Environment

Why We Need a Small Farm Future

October 26, 2020
small farm in france

By Chris Smaje The palm civet is a small omnivorous mammal of Indonesia and other parts of tropical Asia. Emerging from its forest home onto coffee plantations, it’s able to sense the finest coffee fruits …

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(Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries, Environment

Transforming our Food Systems Is the Only Way to Nourish the World

October 15, 2020
Janet Marot (Credit: Peter Luethi/Biovision)

by Katharine Earley The way we produce our food is under pressure like never before. And with the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic now posing the greatest challenges to nourishing the expanding global population, …

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