Food Barons 2022: Crisis Profiteering, Digitalization and Shifting Power
ETC Group ETC Group’s 2022 update of corporate concentration offers a snapshot of the world’s Food Barons – the biggest players up and down the industrial food and agriculture chain. We examine the leading corporations that control each of 11 key industrial “agrifood” sectors: seeds, agrochemicals, livestock genetics, synthetic fertilizers, farm machinery, animal pharmaceuticals, commodity […]
GMOs: Ottawa Presents Its Reform Using Files from an Agrochemicals Lobby
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network With this controversial reform proposal, the seed industry would be exempt from controls and transparency obligations Did the agrochemical lobby participate in the drafting of controversial federal reforms to facilitate the marketing of a new generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? Two embargoed documents from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), […]
Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits: A Food Crisis by Design
Navdanya International … As of the pandemic, global inflation has been on the rise causing detrimental price spikes in some of the poorest regions of the world. According to the same narrative, we are facing a drop in global food supply with “Europe’s breadbasket” no longer able to produce for the foreseeable future. So, governments […]
Does Glyphosate Affect the Human Microbiota?
Pere Puigbò, Lyydia I. Leino, Miia J. Rainio, Kari Saikkonen, Irma Saloniemi, Marjo Helander Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used agrochemical. Its use in agriculture and gardening has been proclaimed safe because humans and other animals do not have the target enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS). However, increasing numbers of studies have demonstrated risks to […]
