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Center for International Policy

Latin America: The Downside of the GM Revolution

> by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero

As genetically modified soybeans take over vast tracts in South America and reports flow in of genetic contamination of local corn in Mesoamerica, grassroots resistance to biotech crops has also grown. The protests form part of people’s movements across the hemisphere that tie together a rejection of neoliberalism and agribusiness, and call for land reform, food sovereignty, and sustainable agriculture. Read full document "Latin America: The Downside of the GM (...) read

date of on-line publication : 19 December 2007

Progressio

Food sovereignty : the people’s alternative

> Ernest Cañada, Progressio, October 2006, 32 p. (pdf)

Two conflicting approaches to food production are currently dividing the world : on the one side, the large-scale production of crops for export, controlled by transnational agribusiness companies ; on the other, the agriculture of small family farmers. In this comment, Ernest Cañada outlines how small family farmers are opposing the dominant agribusiness model with an alternative approach based on the concept of food sovereignty. Drawing on a detailed discussion of the situation in (...) read

date of on-line publication : 20 March 2007

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