Challenging Industrial Agriculture and the Green Revolution

AN EVENING OF DEBATE ON SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:58:24 -0400

Start: 11/17/2008 - 07:00

End: 11/17/2008 - 09:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Bioengineer Drew Endy is the leading enabler of open-source biotechnology. Technology activist Jim Thomas is the leading critic of biotech, based with ETC Group in Ottawa.

"Synthetic Biology includes the broad redefinition and expansion of biotechnology, with the ultimate goals of being able to design and build engineered biological systems that process information, manipulate chemicals, fabricate materials and structures, produce energy, provide food, and maintain and enhance human health and our environment." -- Wikipedia.

Synthetic Biology aka "extreme genetic engineering":The Bay Area's Next Bio-Bubble? - A one-day Teach In

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:08:11 -0400

Start: 11/13/2008 - 09:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Synthetic Biology, a new biotech revolution nurtured in the San Francisco Bay Area, was at the heart of the recent controversial deal between UC Berkeley and oil giant BP. Discover how this fast growing artificial life industry is set to have massive implications for global justice, peace, the environment and the Bay Area itself.
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Synthetic Biology? Whats that?

Eric Holt-Gimenez interview--The Gates Foundation and the New Green Revolution for Africa.

rjonasse — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:06:33 -0400

Issue #3 AAAGRrrr!

matthew.dintenfass — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:43:31 -0400

Hambre, crisis y negocio: la tormenta perfecta de la ayuda alimentaria

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:37:31 -0400

Terra Preta Statement: Platform for Collective Action, June 4, 2008

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:10:27 -0400

Terra Preta:* Forum on the Food Crisis, Climate Change, Agrofuels and Food Sovereignty

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!

WE ARE THE DIFFERENCE!

1 - 4 June, 2008

Industrial Transformation of our Food and Fuel System-a powerpoint presentation by Eric Holt-Gimenez

admin — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:13:46 -0400

View this presentation here:
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2132

Development Report #15: A bitter harvest: Farmer suicide in India

admin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:46:41 -0500

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January 2007

Bryan Newman, BA
Asian Studies
University of North Carolina

Alongside India’s tremendous middle class growth and the much-celebrated boom of its IT sector, a quiet emergency of debt-driven suicide has taken hold in the countryside. It is estimated that between 1993 and 2003, as many as 100,000 indebted Indian farmers took their own lives. Many of these farmers died consuming the very same pesticides they had bought to use on their fields.

Postcards from the Heartland - Part 3

admin — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:40:33 -0500

A Local Revolution

by Ingrid Evjen-Elias

In the third installment of the Postcards from the Heartland series, Food First intern Ingrid Evjen-Elias chronicles what she learned during her 500-mile bike trip through the American Midwest about the troubles facing small farmers and their innovation.

Read Part I and Part II of the series.

Postcards from the Heartland

admin — Tue, 10 May 2005 19:54:22 -0400

Click here to view a detailed map of the route.

By Ingrid Evjen-Elias*

Segment 1 -

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