Seedling October 2010

Tue, November 9, 2010 11:37:20 AM

[New from GRAIN] Seedling October 2010 now available

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New from GRAIN | 9 November 2010

Seedling October 2010 now available

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?type=82

The October 2010 issue of Seedling features an article by GRAIN on the global expansion of industrial meat production and the rise of a new crop of transnational meat corporations based in countries of the South. The article exposes the actors behind the phenomenon and inventories the devastating impacts on people and the planet.

The climate crisis features strongly in this issue as well. An article by GRAIN looks at the outcomes and follow-up from the “People’s World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights”, held in Cochabamba in April 2010, while an editorial by the World Rainforest Movement takes apart the push for "carbon shopping in forests". This issue contains another article by the World Rainforest Movement that considers how the Roundtable on Responsible Palm Oil encourages the expansion of monoculture oil palm plantations around the world.

Plus, South African researcher Rachel Wynberg takes a critical look back at the experiences of the San peoples of Southern Africa with the high-profile case of access-and-benefi sharing surrounding the Hoodia plant. And, in the Seeds section, there are three short articles that look at different aspects of the crisis of the global food system, from the recent ban on wheat exports in Russia, to a massive egg recall in the US, to organised demands for change in India.

To read this issue of Seedling:

Entire issue: http://www.grain.org/seedling/?type=82

or download the PDF: http://www.grain.org/seedling_files/seed-10-10.pdf

CONTENTS:

Wrong road to Cancún, by the World Rainforest Movement

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=700

Big Meat is growing in the South, by GRAIN

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=701

From Cochabamba to Cancún, by GRAIN

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=702

The “greening” of a shady business – Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, by the World Rainforest Movement

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=703

Hot air over Hoodia, by Rachel Wynberg

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=704

SEEDS of information, by GRAIN:

Food crisis or agribusiness as usual?

A high-risk food system

Groups take on the causes of hunger in India

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=705