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GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. More info on their website, www.grain.org

How the World Bank helped re-establish colonial plantations

In October 2020, a group of 79 Kenyans filed a lawsuit in a UK court against one of the world’s largest plantation companies, Camelia Plc. They say the company is responsible for the killings, rapes and other abuses that its security guards have carried out against local villagers at its 20,000 hectare plantation, which produces […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Development, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: agriculture, corporations, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, local food

Origin of Covid-19: industrial livestock?

Let’s be clear: there is no solid evidence that the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the cause of the current Covid-19 disease pandemic, is an open seafood market in Wuhan that also trades in domestic and wild animals. All that we know is that several early cases of people diagnosed with Covid-19 either […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Food and Farming Tagged With: agriculture, corporations, farming, global food, health, industrial agriculture

Step Aside Agribusiness: It’s Time for Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis

The recent UN Climate Action Summit was tricky for agribusiness CEOs. With forest fires raging in the Amazon, a damning new report about the food system by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and millions of young people out in streets clamoring to shut down fossil fuels and factory farming, it wasn’t easy for […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Food and Farming Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporations, economic growth, globalization, industrial agriculture, local food

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