The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems
Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
Read more...Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
Read more...The UN last week issued a report assessing the dire state the world’s soil. The calls to action are inadequate to the scale of the problem.
Read more...A big Covid surge in the Seychelles, a heavly vaccinated country, calls into question relying on vaccines as the route to normalcy.
Read more...One lasting benefit of the terrible COVID-19 pandemic might be a quicker route to a malaria vaccine and a safer future for children in the world’s poorest countries.
Read more...Biden faces increased wroldwide pressure for WTO waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines as case counts soar in India.
Read more...Corporate ownership in many sectors of food production has risen and is set to increase further. Another rentier program well underway.
Read more...The Gates-Foundation-promoted Green Revolution has proven harmful and also crowded out safer and effective ecological agriculture projects
Read more...International tax reform, to check multinational tax avoidance, has made perilously little progress. Will Yellen’s backing make a difference?
Read more...India has stepped up its foreign policy re-engagement with African countries and has focused on health diplomacy.
Read more...Will the U.S. relax export controls that threaten global vaccine production? What’s the next step for U.S. vacccine diplomacy?
Read more...Rich nations continue to block a propsed waiver of intellectual property rights to allow global sharing of vaccine tecnology and production.
Read more...The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.
Read more...Ursula Burns, a candidate for Commerce Secretary, is a director of Nestlé, which defended its use of child labor before the Supreme Court.
Read more...Drained peatlands and peat fires emit around 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land-use change and forestry, yet there seems to be little effort to prevent this.
Read more...Since the US elections weren’t the only recent event of importance, an international news smorgasbord.
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