Unsustainable Livestock Production

4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day – Promoting the “Cerrado [agribusiness] model”

20 jun., 2012

“Land grab may work well for everybody and must not be rejected with knee-jerk reactions.” – Rachel Kyte, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development and CGIAR Fund Council Chair The 4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day was held on 18th June, hosted by Embrapa (Brazil’s public-sector agricultural research company) and CGIAR, a World Bank funding body for agricultural research. Previous such days, which coincided with climate COPs, served to rally political and financial support for the controversial concept of …

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Over 25.000 people tell Ahold: stop misleading consumers, Genetically Modified toxic soy is not responsible!

10 feb., 2012

Yesterday multinational food retailer Ahold has received the signatures of 26.000 people across Europe demanding an end to greenwash projects like the Round Table for Responsible Soy (RTRS). Jochem van de Laatschot,…

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The Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD)

4 dic., 2011

Durban, South Africa – This was the third such ARDD day – the first was during the Copenhagen COP, and some of us went along on the 3rd to keep…

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What is behind the “responsible” soy label? Detective Pig finds out

8 abr., 2011

In 2011 the ‘Round Table on Responsible Soy’ (RTRS) will introduce a label for ‘responsible’ soy. This will be mostly genetically engineered (GE) soy, designed to be produced with large…

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