Hungry Corporations
Language: English
Published by Zed Books, Limited, 2020
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- Title
- Hungry Corporations
- Author
- Kuyek, Devlin, Steinbrecher, Ricarda, Michaels, Lucy, Steinbrecher, Paul
- Publisher
- Zed Books, Limited
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1842773011
- ISBN 13
- 9781842773017
- Item weight
- 0.732 pounds
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- Accelerated the industrialization of agriculture and the integration of the global economy in order to gain an alarming control over the food chain.
- Penetrated the previously independent world of scholarly research both in universities and the specialized international agricultural research centres in CGIAR.
- Manipulated public opinion, including distorting our understanding of key environmental processes and issues.
- Unduly influenced regulatory agencies and national governments.
- Turned international bodies like the WTO, the World Bank, and the FAO into instruments devising rules and policies primarily of benefit to corporate growth and corporate profit.
- And now are further expanding by bullying the governments and farmers of the developing countries to accept their technologies and products.
Whether you are interested in the environment, democracy, or the development of countries in the South, the information and analysis contained in this book will prove both disturbing and empowering.
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About the Author
She is now an independent consultant and member of Econexus, an international non-profit research organization. She has travelled extensively to Southern countries in connection with her work. In Ecuador she has collaborated with Accion Ecologica, the Fatima Centre and the Rainforest Information Centre over several years. In Brazil, she has spoken of the risks of genetically engineered crops at events organized by the Workers Party of Brazil and local resistance groups in Rio Grande do Sul, Parana and Santa Catalina.
Dr. Ricarda A. Steinbrecher received a first class honours M.Sc. in biology at the University of Kiel, Germany and a Ph.D. in molecular genetics at the University of London. She is a member of the British Society for Allergy, Nutritional and Environmental Medicine and advisor to many national and international NGOs, including the Pesticide Action Network, Third World Network, WWF, Women's Environmental Network and the Five Year Freeze Campaign.
Currently, she is Director of Econexus, and engages in collaborative work with researchers at universities in the UK, USA and Norway on issues of genetic engineering, toxicity and gene ecology. Over the last six years she has taken part in numerous British Government consultations regarding the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). She has also acted as an advisor at the negotiations for the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
Lucy Michaels MA (Econ) has been campaigning both locally and nationally to raise awareness about genetic engineering and industrial agriculture. This has included working with the Women's Environmental Network in London and as a guest researcher for Econexus. She is currently the food and agriculture researcher at CorporateWatch UK.
Devlin Kuyek is an activist researcher who spent nearly three years with Pesticide Action Network - Asia/Pacific, leading its Pesticide Industry Programme and organizing the launch of the International Alliance Against Agrochemical TNCs. Since leaving PAN-AP, he has conducted research for international networks of peasant movements, farmers organizations, and NGOs in Asia and Africa into the impacts of emerging trends in agricultural research and development on small farmers.
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