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TWN Info Service on Sustainable Agriculture (2016)
- Organic Agriculture Maintains Its Exclusion of All GM Technologies
(28 Dec 16)
- Expanding Corporate Control over Food and Agriculture
(27 Dec 16)
- Biocultural Innovation Crucial to Climate Change Resilience
(23 Dec 16)
- 'Organic 3.0' - A Lighthouse for Truly Sustainable Agriculture
(22 Dec 16)
- Corruption Driving the Global Land Grabbing Crisis
(21 Dec 16)
- Changing the Questions We Ask About Food
(20 Dec 16)
- Launch of the FAO website on Agroecology
(16 Dec 16)
- Climate Change Demands Global Transformation of Agriculture Now
(14 Dec 16)
- Diminishing power of small-scale farmers in cocoa GVCs
by Kanaga Raja (09 Dec 16)
- South stress on outcomes on public stockholding, SSM, LDC issues
by Kanaga Raja (07 Dec 16)
- UN Rapporteur Raises Concern Over ARIPO PVP Protocol
(01 Dec 16)
- ARIPO’s Draft Regulations for Plant Variety Protection Fail to Operationalize Government’s Right to Object
by Sangeeta Shashikant (01 Dec 16)
- Positions unchanged on public stockholding, SSM, says Chair
by Kanaga Raja (28 Nov 16)
- Protecting Peasant Seeds from Growing Corporate Capture
(24 Nov 16)
- Global Consultation on Farmers’ Rights / Co-chairs' Summary of Recommendations
(24 Nov 16)
- High Frequency Trading Could Have Negative Impact on Right to Food
by Kaitlin Cordes & Jesse Coleman (22 Nov 16)
- How to Mainstream Agroecology
(16 Nov 16)
Item 1: TOWARD THICK LEGITIMACY: CREATING A WEB OF LEGITIMACY FOR AGROECOLOGY by Maywa Montenegro de Wit & Alastair Iles
Item 2: WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO MAINSTREAM "ALTERNATIVE" AGRICULTURE? by Maywa Montenegro de Wit & Alastair Iles
- Shining a spotlight on the 2030 Agenda
by Kanaga Raja (01 Nov 16)
- Amplifying Agroecologyto Transform Food Systems
(25 Oct 16)
- Big Agriculture Doesn’t Feed the Poor
(21 Oct 16)
- A Roadmap to Transform the Global Food System with Agroecology
(19 Oct 16)
- Transitioning Out of GM Maize: Towards Nutrition Security, Climate Adaptation, Agro-Ecology and Social Justice
(18 Oct 16)
- Protecting Seeds, Protecting Food
(17 Oct 16)
- Agroecology Contributes Positively to SDGs
by Michael Farrelly (12 Oct 16)
- Global food import bill to fall to six-year low
by Kanaga Raja (12 Oct 16)
- Mega-Mergers Will Put Three Companies in Control of Global Agriculture
(11 Oct 16)
Item 1: FARMING MEGA-MERGERS THREATEN FOOD SECURITY, SAY CAMPAIGNERS by John Vidal
Item 2: AGRICHEMICALS AND EVER MORE INTENSIVE FARMING WILL NOT FEED THE WORLD by Felicity Lawrence
- Mainstreaming Ecosystem Functions and Biodiversity into Agriculture
(07 Oct 16)
- SouthNews: UN Human Rights Council creates position of Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development
by Adriano José Timossi (06 Oct 16)
- New APBREBES Publication: Farmers’ Right to Participate in Decision-making
(28 Sept 16)
- UN Political Declaration on Antimicrobial Resistance Signals High Level Recognition
by Mirza Alas (27 Sept 16)
- World leaders pledge action to control superbugs
by Martin Khor (27 Sept 16)
- Rootworm Resistance to Bt Corn Reflects Failure of Industrial Agriculture
(27 Sept 16)
- Peasants Rebuilding Agricultural Biodiversity Knowledge
(26 Sept 16)
- Mapping Farmer Seed Varieties in Manica, Mozambique: Initial Investigations into Agricultural Biodiversity
(20 Sept 16)
- Studies Find Insecticides Not Needed for Rice Farming (15 Sept 16)
Item 1: MULTI-COUNTRY EVIDENCE THAT CROP DIVERSIFICATION PROMOTES ECOLOGICAL INTENSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURE
Item 2: CHAPTER 9. ARE THERE PRODUCTIVITY GAINS FROM INSECTICIDE APPLICATIONS IN RICE PRODUCTION?
- N2Africa, the Gates Foundation and Legume Commercialisation in Africa
(01 Sept 16)
- Organic Produces More Benefits than Conventional Farming in the Tropics
(30 Aug 16)
- ITPGRFA Multi-Lateral System: Seed Treaty Meanders Toward Revising its ABS System
by Edward Hammond (19 Aug 16)
- Farmer Managed Seed Systems in Morogoro and Mvomero, Tanzania: The Disregarded Wealth of Smallholder Farmers
(17 Aug 16)
- Meeting report of Seed Treaty benefit sharing system reform
by Edward Hammond (10 Aug 16)
- Strengthening Interlinkages Between Agriculture and Biodiversity Critical to Global Food Security
(31 Jul 16)
- UN: Menace of fraud deserves serious attention, says JIU report
by Chakravarthi Raghavan (22 Jul 16)
- Soil fertility: Agro-ecology and not the Green Revolution for Africa
(15 Jul 16)
- New - Spotlight Report on Sustainable Development
(13 Jul 16)
- Farm Input Subsidy Programmes (FISPs): Benefiting or Betraying SADC's Small-Scale Farmers?
(12 Jul 16)
- Agroecology: A Sure Recipe to Feed the World Sustainably
(05 Jul 16)
Item 1: Organic and agroecological solutions to feed the world
by Christopher D. Cook, Kari Hamerschlag & Kendra Klein
Item 2: Dirt, democracy, and organic farming: A recipe to feed the world
- ARIPO Draft Regulations on Plant Variety Penalizes Small Farmers
by Sangeeta Shashikant (24 Jun 16)
- A Green Revolution dead-end in Malawi: Case studies on AGRA?s pigeon pea project and Malawi Agro-dealer Strengthening Programme (MASP)
(20 Jun 16)
- Proposed Plant Variety Regulations inconsistent with ARIPO's Protocol, violates sovereign rights
(17 Jun 16)
- ARIPO PVP Regulations: Ferocious Campaign against Seed Saving Farmers in Africa and State Sovereignty
(17 Jun 16)
- Agroecology in Action
(15 Jun 16)
- Western Donors Drive Pro-Corporate Agricultural Campaign in Africa
(13 Jun 16)
- CSO letter to countries negotiating RCEP
(10 Jun 16)
- Shifting from Uniformity to Diversity in Agriculture (22 Mar 16)
Item 1: How to Leave Industrial Agriculture Behind
by Olivier De Schutter & Emile Frison
Item 2: A switch to ecological farming will benefit health and environment – report
by John Vidal
- How to Leave Industrial Agriculture Behind - Food Systems Experts Urge Global Shift Towards Agroecology
(02 Jun 16)
- DivSeek founder offers industry patent rights on climate change genes for US $400,000
by Edward Hammond (25 May 16)
- FAO Regional Meetings on Agroecology Call for Policy Change to Support Transition
(25 May 16)
- Free trade in rhetoric, protection in practice
by Martin Khor (24 May 16)
- Developing Countries Stress on Importance of SSM
by Kanaga Raja (17 May 16)
- New Crop Technologies for Africa Not Scale-Neutral
(17 May 16)
- Apbrebes Updates on Plant Variety Protection #23, 9 May 2016
(09 May 16)
- The Sustainability of Agroecology versus the Unsustainability of Industrial Farming
(09 May 16)
- Synthetic biology debate ahead of biodiversity treaty's top meeting
by Edward Hammond (09 May 16)
- Promising Trend Towards Sustainable Agriculture in China
(06 May 16)
- Building Agricultural Resilience Through Evolutionary Plant Breeding
(04 May 16)
- Apbrebes Updates on Plant Variety Protection Issue #22, 29 April 2016
(03 May 16)
- Creating an Enabling Environment for Small-Scale Farmer Innovation
(28 Apr 16)
- FAO Commits Continued Support for Agroecology
(28 Apr 16)
- Synthetic Biology and Agriculture: Access to genetic data is "the big issue of our time"
by Edward Hammond (19 Apr 16)
- Zimbabwean Smallholder Support at the Crossroads: Diminishing Returns from Green Revolution Seed and Fertiliser Subsidies and the Agro-Ecological Alternative
(19 Apr 16)
- UPOV's Symposium on Interrelations between ITPGRFA & UPOV, Inadequate to Implement "Farmers Rights" Resolutions
(07 Apr 16)
- Agribusiness Corporations Leave Heavy Hidden Carbon Footprints
(06 Apr 16)
- Digital genebankers plan to ignore UN request on the impact of genomics/synthetic biology on access and benefit sharing
(05 Apr 16)
- Upscaling Community Seed Banks, Upholding Farmers' Rights
(28 Mar 16)
- Intergovernmental biodiversity platform gears up substantive work
by Hilary Chiew (25 Mar 16)
- SDG indicators challenged by many UN member states
by Bhumika Muchhala (24 Mar 16)
- Build Healthy, Sustainable Food Systems to Fight Malnutrition
by IPS/Jomo Kwame Sundaram (24 Mar 16)
- Outcome on FAO Treaty/UPOV inter-relations, far cry from expectations
by Sangeeta Shashikant (24 Mar 16)
- Mexico's Chinampas Prove Productive and Climate-Resilient
by Emilio Godoy (23 Mar 16)
- 2030 Agenda and the SDGs: indicator framework, monitoring and reporting
by Barbara Adams & Karen Judd (22 Mar 16)
- Organic Meat and Products More Nutritious Than Non-Organic (22 Mar 16)
Item 1: Composition differences between organic and conventional meat: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
by British Journal of Nutrition
Item 2: Ground-breaking new study finds clear nutritional differences between organic and non-organic milk and meat
by Soil Association
- Apbrebes Updates on Plant Variety Protection #21, 15 March
(18 Mar 16)
- Report - What Does RCEP Mean for Farmers' Seeds in Asia?
by GRAIN (17 Mar 16)
- SSM, public stockholding priority issues, say South
by Kanaga Raja (16 Mar 16)
- Women Produce Food, But the Last to Eat it
by Kanaga Raja (15 Mar 16)
- Some Important Provisions in China’s Revised Seed Law
by Zhu Zhenyan (04 Mar 16)
- Sustainability goals to get action going
by Martin Khor (03 Mar 16)
- IPBES: First global biodiversity assessments open for governmental acceptance
by Hilary Chiew & Chee Yoke Ling (25 Feb 16)
- Organic Delivers More Benefits Than Conventional Agriculture
(19 Feb 16)
- Gates Foundation and its Industrial Agriculture Agenda
(01 Feb 16)
- African Farmers Lead the Way in Climate-Resilient Agroecology
(26 Jan 16)
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