Rising Desertification Shows We Can’t Keep Farming With Fossil Fuels
Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more extreme with the incessant rise of greenhouse gas emissions over the last…
Industrial Agriculture
Agriculture MNCs– Harming Environment while Claiming to Protect
With the emergence of climate change mitigation and adaptation as very important challenges, an important discovery was that if many of the natural farming practices of traditional farming were brought…
Platforms of Control and the Unbreakable Spirit
Max Weber (1864-1920) was a prominent German sociologist who developed influential theories on rationality and authority. He examined different types of rationality that underpinned systems of authority. He argued that…
From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia
“A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to…
Resisting US-India Agri-Imperialism
A “high-powered US trade delegation” recently visited India to “explore opportunities in the country's huge agribusiness sector and further promote American products among India’s rising middle class.” So reads the…
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to a doubling…
Let Them Eat Bugs: Challenging the WEF’s Corporate-Driven Food Reset
The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well…
Living in Epoch-Defining Times: Food, Agriculture and the New World Order
Farmerless farms manned by driverless machines, monitored by drones and doused with chemicals to produce commodity crops from patented genetically engineered seeds for industrial ‘biomatter’ to be processed and constituted into…
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