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Ribeiro: Mexico: Want to cut food production? Sow GM seed!
Znet Article, July, 25 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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Monsanto has told the press media over the last few days that the upcoming publication of the so-called special protection regime for maize will allow it to start experiments with genetically modified (GM) maize. What a historic irony that such a ...
Ribeiro: Biofuels: World Bank Tricks and Secrets
Znet Article, July, 10 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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A confidential internal report of the World Bank from April 2008, shows that the production of agro-industrial fuels, especially ones derived from maize, are the main cause of food price increases, Britain's Guardian newspaper has revealed (Aditya...
Ribeiro: Climate Genes and Hunger Traders
Znet Article, May, 28 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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Faced with the growing food crisis and disasters caused by climate change, the big biotechnology and agri-business corporations have returned to the attack with new enthusiasm, as if they were not the very ones who have caused the crisis. Their mo...
Ribeiro: Predatory Agribusiness
Znet Article, May, 18 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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Food prices continue rising around the world giving rise to intolerable conditions in the most vulnerable countries like famine, often combined with drought or flooding, the perverse effects of climate change. Faced with the seriousness of the cri...
Ribeiro: New fuels, same old bio-piracy
Znet Article, May, 04 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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In recent months, critical reports from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, international institutions crucial in developing neoliberalism, have joined numerous voices from civil society warning of the social, economic and environm...
Ribeiro: Corporations, agro-fuels and GM seeds
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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September 16th 2007 -- The wave of bio-fuels continues to advance, not because it is good for the environment or offers some solution to global climate change - de facto it will worsen it - but rather because the most powerful industries on the ...
Ribeiro: Syngenta: murder and private militias in Brazil
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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Last October 21st, an armed militia under contract to the GM seeds multinational Syngenta invaded the Terra Livre camp in Paraná in Brazil, killing with two shots from point blank range a 34 year-old activist of the Landless Workers Movement (MST)...
Ribeiro: Paper Bullets
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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On March 4th 2008, more than 800 women of Via Campesina Brazil invaded the Fazenda Tarumã in the State of Río Grande do Sul, a farm of 2100 hectares dedicated to the monocultivation of trees for the Swedish-Finnish paper company Stora Enso, the wo...
Ribeiro: The Threat of GM Trees
Znet Article, March, 04 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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While genetically manipulated crops carry on being the subject of vigorous polemics and resistance around the world as more and more data is gathered on contamination, yield failures, increased use of agro-poisons and impacts on health and the env...
Ribeiro: Beyond the Second Generation of Bio-Fuel Crops
Znet Article, February, 09 2008
Silvia Ribeiro
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Faced with the obvious problems of the called first-generation bio-fuels (derived from crops like sugar cane, maize, soya and palm oil) - for example their zero or negative energy efficiency - industry and governments, helped by some academic rese...
Ribeiro: 2006 and the plutocracy
Znet Article, January, 23 2007
Silvia Ribeiro
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Corporate concentration through global mergers and acquisitions reached a record at the close of 2006. In our daily life this means that companies are becoming ever fewer but also ever la...
Ribeiro: The faithless gardener
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Silvia Ribeiro
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Pharmaceutical companies use Third World populations for experiments not permitted in their own countries. Fabrizio and Jordano, two of the 140 Peruvian babies used in an experiment with substances derived from genetically manipulated rice by the...
Ribeiro: The World Bank Against Bio-security
Znet Article, July, 23 2006
Silvia Ribeiro
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The fundamental role of the World Bank is not to act as a financial institution but to frame countries' policies so as to prepare the way for private corporations to act later on in those countries with legal guarantees. They do this with a mixtur...
Ribeiro: The costs of "Walmartization".
Znet Article, January, 16 2005
Silvia Ribeiro
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For the first time in history, demarcating the beginning of the 21st century, the biggest company in the world was not an oil concern or an automobile manufacturer, but Wal-Mart, a supermarket chain. The symbolic value of this fact weighs as much ...
