Tag: Africa

Another Dirty Side of “Clean” Energy, “Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives”

Compiled by Patricia Burke with Sarah Aminoff of Safe Tech International (Top images source: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284297/cobaltred) “Never in human history has there been so much suffering that generated so much profit that directly touched the lives of more people around the world.” Siddharth Kara’s new book is…

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“Bad for African Farmers, Bad for the Planet”: How the Gates Foundation Is Driving the Food System in the Wrong Direction

By GRAIN The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly US$6 billion over the past 17 years trying to improve agriculture, mainly in Africa. This is a lot of money for an underfunded sector, and, as such, carries great weight. To better understand how…

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Tanzania Blocks GMO Field Trials Again Amid Fear of Seed Instability

By Phillip Schneider Tanzania’s recently appointed Agricultural Minister has announced a second cancellation of field research trials of genetically modified maize in order to preserve local diversity of African seed. In 2018, Tanzania’s previous Agricultural Minister Mathew Mtigumwe put a temporary ban on all GMO…

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“After 13 Years, Justice!” Dutch Court Orders Shell Oil to Pay for Harm Done to Nigerian Farmers

By Andrea Germanos Global environmental justice campaigners heralded a Dutch court’s ruling Friday that Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay punitive restitution to Nigerian villages for oil spill contamination that brought death, illness, and destruction to Nigerian farmers and communities. “After 13 years, justice!”…

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“Bill Gates We Are Not Your Lab Rats!” Africans Protest COVID Vaccine Trials Among Poor

By Brian Shilavy Testing on an experimental COVID vaccine began on 2000 “volunteers” in South Africa this week, and protesters gathered at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. This is the Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine trial from the UK, funded heavily by the World…

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