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Now that the reality of climate change has been accepted even by its strongest sceptics, there is a rush to find answers. The latest buzz is to substitute the use of greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels with biofuels-fuel processed from plants. Unfortunately, the way we are going about (…)

El 19 de julio de 1979 el Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) conquistaba el poder en Nicaragua luego de tan largos como difíciles años de lucha guerrillera. De la dirección nacional colegiada, entre los nueve comandantes de la revolución, se proyectaba particularmente Daniel Ortega (…)

Parece que la “bala de plata” ya tiene un arma
Asunto: En África todo mundo quiere impulsar la ciencia, y especialmente la ciencia agrícola. A partir de la reunión del G8 hace cinco años en Canadá, donde cuatro de sus miembros prometieron construir nuevos centros de excelencia científica, (…)

Editorial d’Alain Le Sann, directeur de la revue Down To Earth.
"L’avenir de notre planète se joue dans les villes, au Nord comme au Sud, particulièrement pour l’énergie. Plus se diffuse l’angoisse du réchauffement climatique, plus s’accélère la prise de conscience de la nécessité d’une (…)

Since January 2002, US Special Operations Forces (SOFs) have been stationed in the southern Philippines and have not left since then. Their deployment has significant implications for issues of peace and security in the southern Philippines, on democracy in the country and its sovereignty, on (…)

Researchers from usa and Denmark have confirmed an association between increased exposure to persistent organic pollutants (pops) like polychlorinated biphenyls (pcb) and decreased antibody production in children vaccinated against tetanus and diphtheria. Action against pops was initiated in the (…)

Energy insecurity is India’s latest tryst with her post-liberalised destiny. It began in July 2006. Crude oil prices rose to all time peak, at US $79 a barrel. In India, retail prices of petrol and diesel rose, respectively, 59.6 per cent and 78.8 per cent from 2002 levels. A compelled (…)

Nanotecnología se refiere a un conjunto de técnicas que se utilizan para manipular la materia en la escala de los átomos y las moléculas. “Nano” es una medida, no un objeto. Cuando decimos “biotecnología”, sabemos que se refiere a la manipulación de la vida, bios, a diferencia de cuando decimos (…)

A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001.
The WSF was the brainchild of social movements loosely associated with the Workers’ Party (PT) in Brazil. Strong support for (…)

One of the terrible truths of the 20th century is that it was a blight on small farmers or peasants everywhere. Before looking at the question of whether Asia’s farmers need protection, it is necessary to consider this historical background.
In both wealthy capitalist economies and in (…)

How corporations use bilateral trade channels to weaken biotech regulations
The agribusiness sector has been struggling to respond to worldwide opposition to genetically modified (GM) foods ever since farmers started sowing the laboratory-engineered seeds in the mid-1990s. Transnational (…)

La ingeniería genética fue rebasada. Hoy, los científicos ya no mapean únicamente genomas o manipulan genes. Construyen vida de la nada -y lo hacen en ausencia de un debate social y de una supervisión regulatoria. Conocida como “ingeniería genética con esteroides”, la biología sintética implica (…)

When it first became part of the English vocabulary in the early 1990s, « globalization » was supposed to be the wave of the future. Fifteen years ago, the writings of globalist thinkers such as Kenichi Ohmae and Robert Reich celebrated the advent of the emergence of the so-called « borderless (…)

The big players in the world seed industry are grumbling about loopholes in the plant variety protection system, which was the alternative to patenting that they set up in the 1960s. The Europeans want to get rid of farmers’ limited entitlement to save seed. The Americans want to restrict the (…)

Les principaux acteurs du monde de l’industrie des semences se plaignent des lacunes qui existent dans le système de protection des variétés végétales, l’alternative au brevet qu’ils ont mise en place dans les années soixante. Les Européens veulent se débarrasser de la possibilité limitée (…)

La sobrecapacidad productiva global ha tornado no rentables a las ulteriores inversiones, desalentando significativamente el crecimiento económico mundial. En Europa, por ejemplo, el crecimiento del PBI ha alcanzado un promedio de tan solo 1,45 % en los últimos años. Y si los países no están (…)

Since January 2002, US Special Operations Forces (SOFs) have been stationed in the southern Philippines and have not left since then. Their deployment has significant implications for issues of peace and security in the southern Philippines, on democracy in the country and its sovereignty, on (…)

At the height of the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, a call came from civil society groups in that country asking the international community to send peace delegations to bear witness to the ongoing destruction of a nation and demonstrate solidarity with the Lebanese people in their hour of (…)

Entendu dans son sens littéral, en tant qu’adjectif, l’humanitaire, qui vise au bien être de l’humanité, prête peu à contestation. En tant que nom commun, défini comme l’ensemble des organisations humanitaires, il prête déjà à plus de discussions. Le mouvement humanitaire occupe une place (…)

The recent US election was a redemptive election. At a time that many throughout the world had written off the American electorate as lifeless putty in the hands of Karl Rove, it woke up to deliver the Republican Party its worse blow in the last quarter of a century. Not only independents and (…)