 | Shaping the Future: Kearney Ag Futures Internship Program The UC Kearney Agricultural Center in Fresno County has put a valuable and much needed internship program in place to give students a first hand look into the world of agricultural research. Series: "University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources" [2/2002] [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 6271] |
 | Agriculture - The Future of the World More and more countries are getting industrialized but we have to realize that we can never leave nor ignore agricultural countries. Farmers are unsong heroes. |
 | "The World According to Monsanto" More at http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080601YT Filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin on the troubling past of one of the world's biggest agricultural companies |
 | Vandana Shiva talks about the World Future Council Dr. Vandana Shiva trained as a Physicist. In 1982, she founded an independent institute, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in Dehra Dun dedicated to high quality and independent research to address the most significant ecological and social issues of our times. In 1991, she founded Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seeds. Dr. Shiva has contributed in fundamental ways to changing the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. Her books, 'The Violence of Green Revolution' and 'Monocultures of the Mind' have become basic challenges to the dominant paradigm of non-sustainable, reductionist Green Revolution Agriculture. Dr. Shiva is a sought-after speaker at conferences all over the world. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. |
 | Manfred Max-Neef talsk about the World Future Council Prof. Max-Neef is a Chilean economist who focussed on 'development alternatives'. After teaching economics at Berkeley in the 1960s, he served as a Visiting Professor at a number of US and Latin American universities. He has worked on development projects in Latin America for the Pan-American Union, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Labour Office. In 1981 he wrote the book for which he is best known, 'From the Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics', published by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Sweden. It is concerned with practising 'economics as if people matter' among the poor in South America. In the same year he set up in Chile the organisation CEPAUR (Centre for Development Alternatives). He was Rector of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia and currently teaches and lectures globally. He received the Right Livelihood Award in 1983. |
 | Tewolde Berhan Egziabher talks on the World Future Council Tewolde Berhan graduated in 1963 from the University of Addis Ababa and took a doctorate from the University of Wales in 1969. He was Dean of the Faculty of Science at Addis Ababa University, 1974-78 and later Director of the Ethiopian Conservation Strategy Secretariat 1991-94. Since then he has been General Manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia, which is effectively the country's Ministry of the Environment. During the 1990s Tewolde put much of his energy into negotiations at the various biodiversity-related fora, especially the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In this time he built up a strong group of well-prepared African negotiators who began to take the lead in the G77 and China Group. Africa came out with united, progressive positions, such as no patents on living materials and the recognition of community rights. Later Tewolde's leadership of the Like-Minded Group in the 1999 biosafety negotiations in Cartagena, Colombia, played a key role in eventually achieving an outcome - against strong US and EU opposition - that protects biosafety and biodiversity and respects traditional and community rights in developing countries. |
 | The Future of Food part 1 There is a food revolution happening around the world today. People are seeking out farmers' markets, organic produce and good restaurants. At the same time, our food supply is increasingly controlled by multi-national corporations. Over the past ten years, with the advent of genetic engineering and the massive expansion of pesticide companies like Monsanto into the seed business, the very nature of our food system has radically changed with potentially disastrous effects for our food security. Patenting of life is now permitted, no labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMO's) in food is required, research is conducted on these issues by universities beholden to the "agri-corps" who fund them, and the major regulatory agencies are run by former execs from these very companies. All the while the average citizen remains blissfully unaware that they are eating GMO food and supporting the aggressive "corporatisation" of their food sources. In fascinating and accessible terms, The Future of Food illuminates the major issues ultimately affecting us all - some surreal, some futuristic, many frightening. Yet, The Future of Food is a hopeful film, featuring insightful and moving interviews with farmers, agriculture and business experts and policymakers. It sees a future in which an informed consumer can join the revolution by demanding natural, healthy food sources that insure environmental integrity. Go to http:\\thebrokenchessboard.blogspot.com for more information. |
 | How to Save the World DVD available on www.greenplanetfilms.org. What does an environmentally friendly biodynamic food system capable of feeding everyone actually look like? A biodynamic revolution is sweeping India. HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD tells the story of marginal farmers across India who are reviving an arcane form of agriculture through the teachings of an elderly New Zealander many are calling the new Gandhi. The outcome of the battle for agricultural control may dictate the future of the earth. |
 | The Future of Food part 2 There is a food revolution happening around the world today. People are seeking out farmers' markets, organic produce and good restaurants. At the same time, our food supply is increasingly controlled by multi-national corporations. Over the past ten years, with the advent of genetic engineering and the massive expansion of pesticide companies like Monsanto into the seed business, the very nature of our food system has radically changed with potentially disastrous effects for our food security. Patenting of life is now permitted, no labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMO's) in food is required, research is conducted on these issues by universities beholden to the "agri-corps" who fund them, and the major regulatory agencies are run by former execs from these very companies. All the while the average citizen remains blissfully unaware that they are eating GMO food and supporting the aggressive "corporatisation" of their food sources. In fascinating and accessible terms, The Future of Food illuminates the major issues ultimately affecting us all - some surreal, some futuristic, many frightening. Yet, The Future of Food is a hopeful film, featuring insightful and moving interviews with farmers, agriculture and business experts and policymakers. It sees a future in which an informed consumer can join the revolution by demanding natural, healthy food sources that insure environmental integrity. Go to http:\\thebrokenchessboard.blogspot.com for more information. |
 | The Future of Food part 3 There is a food revolution happening around the world today. People are seeking out farmers' markets, organic produce and good restaurants. At the same time, our food supply is increasingly controlled by multi-national corporations. Over the past ten years, with the advent of genetic engineering and the massive expansion of pesticide companies like Monsanto into the seed business, the very nature of our food system has radically changed with potentially disastrous effects for our food security. Patenting of life is now permitted, no labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMO's) in food is required, research is conducted on these issues by universities beholden to the "agri-corps" who fund them, and the major regulatory agencies are run by former execs from these very companies. All the while the average citizen remains blissfully unaware that they are eating GMO food and supporting the aggressive "corporatisation" of their food sources. In fascinating and accessible terms, The Future of Food illuminates the major issues ultimately affecting us all - some surreal, some futuristic, many frightening. Yet, The Future of Food is a hopeful film, featuring insightful and moving interviews with farmers, agriculture and business experts and policymakers. It sees a future in which an informed consumer can join the revolution by demanding natural, healthy food sources that insure environmental integrity. Go to http:\\thebrokenchessboard.blogspot.com for more information. |
 | The Future of Food part 4 There is a food revolution happening around the world today. People are seeking out farmers' markets, organic produce and good restaurants. At the same time, our food supply is increasingly controlled by multi-national corporations. Over the past ten years, with the advent of genetic engineering and the massive expansion of pesticide companies like Monsanto into the seed business, the very nature of our food system has radically changed with potentially disastrous effects for our food security. Patenting of life is now permitted, no labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMO's) in food is required, research is conducted on these issues by universities beholden to the "agri-corps" who fund them, and the major regulatory agencies are run by former execs from these very companies. All the while the average citizen remains blissfully unaware that they are eating GMO food and supporting the aggressive "corporatisation" of their food sources. In fascinating and accessible terms, The Future of Food illuminates the major issues ultimately affecting us all - some surreal, some futuristic, many frightening. Yet, The Future of Food is a hopeful film, featuring insightful and moving interviews with farmers, agriculture and business experts and policymakers. It sees a future in which an informed consumer can join the revolution by demanding natural, healthy food sources that insure environmental integrity. Go to http:\\thebrokenchessboard.blogspot.com for more information. |
 | The Future of Food part 5 There is a food revolution happening around the world today. People are seeking out farmers' markets, organic produce and good restaurants. At the same time, our food supply is increasingly controlled by multi-national corporations. Over the past ten years, with the advent of genetic engineering and the massive expansion of pesticide companies like Monsanto into the seed business, the very nature of our food system has radically changed with potentially disastrous effects for our food security. Patenting of life is now permitted, no labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMO's) in food is required, research is conducted on these issues by universities beholden to the "agri-corps" who fund them, and the major regulatory agencies are run by former execs from these very companies. All the while the average citizen remains blissfully unaware that they are eating GMO food and supporting the aggressive "corporatisation" of their food sources. In fascinating and accessible terms, The Future of Food illuminates the major issues ultimately affecting us all - some surreal, some futuristic, many frightening. Yet, The Future of Food is a hopeful film, featuring insightful and moving interviews with farmers, agriculture and business experts and policymakers. It sees a future in which an informed consumer can join the revolution by demanding natural, healthy food sources that insure environmental integrity. Go to http:\\thebrokenchessboard.blogspot.com for more information. |
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