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Kyoto saved: not yet the planet

Posted by bex — 22 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
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The Russian parliament voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol today in a blow to George W Bush's opposition to action on climate change.

Kyoto coming to force is a geopolitical ground shift. Russian ratification pushes this global climate protection agreement over the threshold required to become international law.

Article tagged as: climate change, famine, government, greenland, impacts, international policy, kyoto protocol, malaria, science

Kyoto saved: not yet the planet

Posted by bex — 22 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
smokestack

smokestack

The Russian parliament voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol today in a blow to George W Bush's opposition to action on climate change.

Kyoto coming to force is a geopolitical ground shift. Russian ratification pushes this global climate protection agreement over the threshold required to become international law.

Article tagged as: climate change, famine, government, greenland, impacts, international policy, kyoto protocol, malaria, science

Briefing: GM Crops won't feed the world

Last edited 30 March 2004 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: February 2004

Summary
It has been a year since the "hunger crisis" erupted in Southern Africa which again highlighted the ongoing threat to food security in that region. While the anticipated crisis in Africa did not emerge, the global food and hunger situation has continued to deteriorate ...

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Greenpeace statement on the Southern African food crisis

Last edited 1 November 2002 at 9:00am
Crop: maize

Crop: maize

November 2002

Greenpeace's position on the potential food crisis in Southern Africa is clear: if it comes down to a choice between people eating GM maize or facing starvation we would urge affected states to distribute milled GM maize. To take any other position would be morally unjustifiable.

Greenpeace has never lobbied African countries to reject GM food aid or offered any advice on agricultural affairs. However, some countries have consistently voiced their concerns over GM food. We believe that even in emergency situations, international relations cannot be based upon a rule of

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USAID and GM Food Aid

Last edited 7 October 2002 at 8:00am
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21 March, 2007

Publication date: October 2002

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Article tagged as: agriculture, contamination, development, famine, GM food, reports, southern africa

Bush using famine in Africa as GM marketing tool

Last edited 7 October 2002 at 8:00am
7 October, 2002

Research published today by Greenpeace exposes the Bush Administration's use of the famine in southern Africa as a marketing tool to push GM food in the continent. The document details how the offer of GM food aid by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the latest move in a ten-year marketing campaign designed to facilitate the introduction of US-developed GM crops into Africa. In addition, the US food aid programme effectively channels a huge covert subsidy to American GM farmers through the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.

Article tagged as: agriculture, famine, future of farming, george bush, GM food, press releases

Record Harvest - Record Hunger:

Last edited 10 June 2002 at 8:00am
GM grain

GM grain

Argentinean experience shows genetically engineered crops contribute to poverty

As the world

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Environmental Trust: Organic and agroecological farming in the South

Last edited 7 February 2002 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
7 February, 2002

The crisis in Argentina in late 2001 illustrated again a frustrating and unjust reality: there is no direct relationship between the amount of food a country produces and the number of hungry people who live there. In 2001, Argentina harvested enough wheat to meet the needs of both China and India. Yet Argentina's people were hungry. Argentina's status as the world's second largest producer of GM crops - largely for export - could do nothing to solve its very real hunger problems at home. For fifty years conventional agriculture has been getting less and less sustainable.

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