May 17, 2010 by Beverly Bell “A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed [...]
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Written by Chavannes Jean-Baptiste and Beverly Bell Monday, 08 March 2010 Chavannes Jean-Baptiste is the Executive Director of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP by its Creole acronym) and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP). He gave this interview last month in MPP’s training center in the rambling, [...] Like lightning in a bottle, the struggle of black farmers in America has been captured in vivid black and white moments by documentary photographer, John Ficara. The stories he hears capture a dying way of life. Malawi’s genius farmer 26/03/2010 / MALAWI Frederick Miska is a farmer from north Malawi. Despite having left school at ten, he’s got a better understanding of creative science than most university students. Amongst his homemade inventions; a mobile phone charger, a fan, and even… electricity. Frederick was discovered earlier this year by science researcher and [...] Land grabs: Africa’s new ‘resource curse’? Khadija Sharife 2009-11-26, Pambazuka Issue 459 It has been called the next golden commodity by investment firms, and ‘neocolonialism’ by the now repentant director general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf. The phenomenon better known as ‘land grabbing’ i.e.: Large-scale purchase or lease of farmland [...] |
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