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THE STANDARD OPINION Over the last 100 years, climate change has been a global issue. Rising temperatures, rising sea levels, coastal erosion and extreme weather events like floods, landslides and severe droughts are some of the manifestations of climate change. Rainfall patterns have become unpredictable. Droughts and floods have become more intense, leaving behind a trail of destruction and deaths. Specifically, droughts and floods have contributed to the displacement of persons; an upsurge in mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever; cholera outbreaks in some counties; loss...

by Colin Todhunter / April 21st, 2021 We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world. Of course, those involved in this portray what they are doing as some kind of humanitarian endeavour – saving the planet with ‘climate-friendly solutions’, helping farmers or feeding the ...

It really is a case of old wine in new bottles. And this is not lost on a coalition of 162 civil society, farmers and business organisations which has called on Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans to ensure that new genetic engineering techniques continue to be regulated in accordance with existing EU GMO standards. The coalition argues that these new techniques can cause a range of unwanted genetic modifications that can result in the production of novel toxins or allergens or in the transfer of antibiotic resistance genes. The open letter adds that even intended modif...

Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food Published: April 19, 2021 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved (documented in the recent report ‘Gates to a Global Empire‘ by Navdanya International), whether through buying up huge tracts of farmland, promoting a much-heralded (but failed) ‘green revolution’ for Africa, pushing biosynthetic food and new genetic engineering technologies or more generally facilitating the aims of the mega agrifood corporations.We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrif...

Toggle Sidebar 3 Women Helping to Change Bequia An organization based on the Grenadine island of Bequia is working to positively influence the youth of the island and to uplift creativity and advance culture. One News SVG and Ignite! had some questions for three of the Directors of The Hub Collective for an International Women’s Day highlight. The women – Holly Bynoe, Jessica Jaja, and Danielle Collinson – addressed the challenges and successes of the organisation while mapping out the history of the organisation, its programming and current innovations being brought in by the COVID-19...