Archive for 2008

SoS and the Food Crisis

Rising food prices have devastated many farmers in Honduras. The money they earn for their crops hasn’t changed, but the cost of food has skyrocketed, making it impossible to make ends meet. The food system is broken.

The farmers of Seeds of Survival-Honduras tell a different story. They have improved native corn varieties in their seed banks and have been experimenting with agricultural practices. As a result, their last harvests yielded enough reserves to ease the impact the food crisis is having in their villages.

It’s clear that change is needed to fix the food system. SoS is part of that solution. Find out more at seedsofsurvival.org.

Changing the Fundamentals

Mali: African Women Lead Fight to Cope with Climate Change

June 2008

The women of Douentza, Mali thought they’d seen it all – war, disease, drought – but when their crops started failing year after year, they looked on in …

Of Food and Fodder

The Cycle of Dependency Created by Industrial Agriculture in India
By Kate Green, Program Officer
May 2008

In the community of Kanivemadapura, in India’s Karnataka state, the use of synthetic chemicals had been longstanding and commonplace. During the Green Revolution …

Agrofuels/Biofuels Threaten Food Supply

Biofuels production is making it impossible for humanity to grow enough food. This was the message delivered to Canadians by a panel of farm leaders from the global South – that Biofuels are simply not feasible.

Terminator News

On Monday, March 3, more than a hundred Canadians gathered to restate their opposition to Terminator Seeds and to learn more about this technology.