Environmental for Food Justice

Climate change chaos . Beehive Collective .     Part 2 | The panacea of GMOs INDIGENOUS RIGHT LIVELIHOODS and CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | November 8, 2014 One result of the current wave of transgenic crop failures is that it further undermines the sustainability argument for models that purport to follow a capital-intensive, industrial mass production monoculture strategy. Our global food systems are now more vulnerable precisely because of the widespread adoption of GMO technology and concentrated larger-scaled operations, which combine a decisive lack of structural and species diversity. A significant number of scientific studies show that diversity is the key to resilience in biological systems and social systems. In an article appearing in the prestigious journal, Bioscience , Barbara Lin ( 2011 :183) argues “that climate change could have negative consequences for agricultural production [and] has generated a desire to build resilience into a...

What can I do for seed freedom? Credit: porevit-eko Moderator’s Note: We have previously reported on the connection between private intelligence and security corporations and the tar sands oil and fracking industry sectors. Thousands of former military (Navy, Army, Marines), counterintelligence, and intelligence community soldiers and experts staff these corporations.   [ See our report on the use of the U.S. Army’s Counter-insurgency Manual by security outfits hired by fracking operators and their ancillary services.] It seems that wherever environmental struggles are unfolding, the private and state-run security and intelligence agencies will be involved, on the corporate side of course. The militarization of intelligence gathering and security surrounding intensive energy development installations has led to the criminalizing and harassment of legal forms of citizen protest and organizing. This includes targeting activists for domestic spying and infiltration of organizations...