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Gates Ag One: The Recolonisation Of Agriculture

Published today, Monday Nov 16th, 2020 by Independent Science News: Gates Ag One: The Recolonisation Of Agriculture, written by Navdanya and Navdanya International.
Synopsis: Bill Gates and his Foundation have a major new project. Its full title is ‘The Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations LLC’, but usually it is called ‘Ag One’. The stated purpose of Ag One is to bring an improved green revolution to Africa, India, and neglected areas of South America. According to its manifesto, Ag One will accelerate technology acquisition to solve problems of poverty and climate impacts. But its real agenda, argue the Navdanya authors, is predatory and imperialist. It is to capture valuable agricultural data, genetic data, and other resources from farmers in the Global South, acquiring them for corporate use. Additionally, Ag One will be used to open markets for agribusiness, especially seed and chemical markets. Read the full article at: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/gates-ag-one-the-recolonisation-of-agriculture/
This article is extracted from a new multi-author report on the dangers of philanthrocapitalism and especially the Gates Foundation. Called Gates to a Global Empire, the report is published by Navdanya.
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The Biosecurity Myth That Is Destroying Small Farming by Lucile Leclair.

Published Tuesday 10th November, 2020 by Independent Science News: The Biosecurity Myth That Is Destroying Small Farming by Lucile Leclair.

Synopsis: Governments are deciding that small farms are not biosecure against infectious diseases. Despite plentiful evidence that small farms are in fact more safe and more biosecure than factory farms, governments are enacting rules and regulations that are near impossible for small farms with animals outdoors to meet, either cost-effectively or at all. The result is destroying rural and traditional ways of life. Read the full article written by Lucile Leclair at: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-biosecurity-myth/

Lucile Leclair is the author of: Pandémies, une production industrielle (Reporterre) (French Edition) by Lucile Leclair | Oct 15, 2020.

Rethinking Food and Agriculture: New Ways Forward

Bioscience Resource Project scientists, Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD, are authors of two of the chapters in the just published book Rethinking Food and Agriculture: New Ways Forward . The book was published by Elsevier on October 21st, 2020. The editors are Amir Kassam and Laila Kassam.

To learn more about the specific chapters written by BSR scientists you can go to:

The Myth of a Food Crisis by Jonathan Latham

Will Gene-Edited and other GM Crops Fail Sustainable Food Systems?
by Allison K Wilson

More information about the book, including the chapter titles and their authors, as well as an introduction to the concept of inclusive responsibility, a theme developed in the book, can be found at: https://inclusiveresponsibility.earth/

Why We Need a Small Farm Future

Published today (Mon Oct 26th, 2020) by Independent Science News, “Why We Need a Small Farm Future“,
written by Chris Smaj. The article is an excerpt from his new book.

Synopsis: What would a truly resilient society look like? This article is an excerpt from the new book A Small Farm Future: Making the Case For A Society Built Around Local Economies Self Provisioning Agricultural Diversity and A Shared Earth. The book examines the question of resilience from the points of view of politics, economics, and the physical world, and it challenges both conventional wisdom and standard utopian visions to elaborate on the opportunities and the problems inherent in realising this goal. As Vandana Shiva notes on the cover “Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse”.

The author is a farmer and former academic and the book is published by Chelsea Green Publishing. Read the full excerpt at: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/why-we-need-a-small-farm-future/

Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life

Published Monday Sept 21st, 2020 by Independent Science News: Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
by Dr. Vandana Shiva.
Synopsis:The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown have revealed even more clearly how we are being reduced to objects to be controlled, with our bodies and minds as the new colonies to be invaded. Empires create colonies, colonies enclose the commons of the indigenous living communities and turn them into sources of raw material to be extracted for profits. This linear, extractive logic is unable to see the intimate relations that sustain life in the natural world. It is blind to diversity, cycles of renewal, values of giving and sharing, and the power and potential of self-organising and mutuality. It is blind to the waste it creates and to the violence it unleashes. The extended coronavirus lockdown has been a lab experiment for a future without humanity.
This article is an extract from Vandana Shiva’s new book: Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom (Chelsea Green Publishing, August 2020)

Genome Editing Pioneer Violated Biosafety Rules

Published Thursday Sept. 17th by Independent Science News: Genome Editing Pioneer Violated Biosafety Rules, written by Ed Hammond of Prickly Research.

Synopsis: Daniel Voytas is a professor at the University of Minnesota. He is also CSO of the crop biotech company Calyxt and a co-inventor of the gene editing technique TALENS. For over two years, while they developed a new proprietary method of crop genetic engineering, the Voytas lab was also flagrantly violating US biosafety rules.
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