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Global Water Monitor 
Summary 2024 

US Government-Funded 'Private Social Network' Attacking Pesticide Critics 
Carey Gilliam et al., The Guardian -- 27 Sep 2024 

New Genetic Engineering Technologies in Food and Agriculture in Africa 
African Centre for Biodiversity -- 25 Sep 2024 

From land grabbers to carbon cowboys: a new scramble for community lands takes off 
GRAIN -- 18 Sep 2027 

Pesticides linked to Falling UK Insect Numbers: Invertebrates exposed to chemicals, some 10,000 times more toxic than DDT, Helena Horton, The Guardian -- 19 Jun 2024 ​

The Grab:  Jaw-dropping new film shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources, Adrian Horton, The Guardian -- 12 Jun 2024 

Greenwashing the Amazon: Exit Amazon Oil and Gas Reports 
Matt Krogh, Stand.earth -- 11 June 2024
 

The Warring Conmen at the Heart of a €5bn Carbon Trading Scam  
Jessica Camille Aguirre, The Guardian -- 04 Jun 2024 
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Banking on Climate Chaos: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2024 
Indigenouse Environmental Network et Alia --- 13 May 2024  

Capitaliziing on Chaos: Thompson Safaris Tightens Stranglehold on Indigenous Lands in Tanzania 
The Oakland Institute ... 16 Apr 2024
 
- Update from Oakland Institute: 
Lindblad Expeditions Acquires Thomson Safaris Despite Allegations of Land Theft & Abuses Against the Maasai -- 28 May 2024

Rising Ultra-Processed Food Consumption in Africa Deepens Africa's Biodiversity, Climate and Pollution Crises 
Dire implications for Food Systems Transformations and Farm-managed Seed Systems 

A series by the African Centre for Biodiversity ... April 2024 

A New Wave of Land Grabs Strikes Tanzania 
GRAIN and La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa -- 02 Feb 2024

'Laying Claim to Nature's Work': Plant Patents Sow Fear Among Small Growers 
Martin Soctten, The Guardian - 25 Jan 2024 

INEQUALITY INC.:  How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action 
Oxfam International (Executive Summary) -- January 2024 

Press release: Global South Activists appeal to 7 UN Special rapporteurs on GM Wheat 
Farmers and Seed rights Movement of Africa -- 30 Jan 2024 

75 Year Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

Climate Equality Report 
Oxfam -- 2023

It's All About 'Listening and Sharing': Indigenous Solutions to the Carbon Divide 
The Guardian, Jonathan Watts -- 22 Nov 2023 

Extinction: Number of Species at Risk Doubles to Two Million 
The Guardian, Phoebe Weston -- 08 Nov 2023  

Squeezing communities dry: water grabbing by the global food industry 
GRAIN -- 21 Sept 2023 ​

Brazil Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Land Rights 
“Brazil’s supreme court has blocked efforts to dramatically strip back Indigenous land rights in what
activists called a historic victory for the South American country’s original inhabitants…” 
 
The Guardian - 21 Sept 2023 

Related report in Portuguese 

Seed Harmonisation in Eastern and Southern Africa: Failures, neo-colonial agendas, and the rise of digitalised seed trade - dire implications for farmer managed seed and food systems in Africa 
Sabrina Masinjila, with inputs by ACB Executive Director Mariam Mayet, Africa Centre for Biodiversity - August 2023 ​​

The AfDB Strategy to Agro-Industrialize Africa 
GRAIN -- 31 Jul 2023 

Violence Against Indigenous People in Brazil: Latest Report from CIMI.org.br 
Full Report -- 26 Jul 2023 
Executive Summary --  ​26 Jul 2023 

REDD & the Green Economy Exacerbate Oppression & Deforestation in Pará, Brazil 
World Rainforest Movement -- 22 Jul 2023 

Open Letter to the UN Secretary-General and President of the World Bank 
​Setting Goals to Combat World Poverty
 -- 17 Jul 2023 
 

Agroecology: A Transformative Opportunity for Biodiversity and the Rio Conventions 
Developed by Faris Ahmed, John Garcia-Ulloa et al - 07 June 2023 
Based on “Agroecology: A Transformative Opportunity for the Convention on Biological Diversity” - University of Vermont Institute for Agroecology publication - 05 Dec 2022 
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Fighting for Human Rights Must Be 'At the Heart of our Work' 
UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message to the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights:
"30 Years On: Our Rights —Our Future” -- 06 Jun 2023  

New investigation shows for first time the full scale of the EU’s trade in neonicotinoid chemicals it has branded a global threat to biodiversity and food security 
Crispin Dowler (Unearthed) / Laurent Gaberell (Public Eye) -- 17 May 2023 

Sowing the Seeds of Poverty: How the World Bank Harms Poor Farmers 
Dario Kenner and Ruth Segal, CAFOD -- 24 Apr 2023 

Green Colonialism: Indigenous world leaders warn over West's climate strategy 
Jenni Monet - The Guardian, 23 Apr 2023 

A UK Company is Mining Gold in the Brazilian Amazon on Undisputed Land 
Fernanda Wenzel and Lucy Jordan, Unearthed investigation published in collaboration with The Guardian and Sumaúma -- 18 Apr 2023 

Economic growth is not a magic wand for ending poverty 
Olivier De Shutter - The Guardian, 20 Mar 2023 
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Biggest carbon credit certifier to replace its rainforest offsets scheme 
Patrick Greenfield -- The Guardian, 10 Mar 2023 ​

Weed Management: Alternatives to the use of Glyphosate 
The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament/Pesticide Action Network Europe - 09 Mar 2023 
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Climatologist Carlos Nobre’s dream of an Amazon Institute of Technology 
Jaqueline Sordi, Monabay Series -- 16 Jan 2023 
​A Portuguese translation of interview found
 here​ ​

​Global Biodiversity Framework Stuck in a Paradigm of Catastrophic Growth: What Future for Africa? 
A series on the GBF by Linzi Lewis and Mariam Mayet, The African Centre for Biodiversity -- Oct 2022

Revealed: US Agribusiness Giants’ Soy Linked to Stolen Indigenous Land and Murder in Brazil 
Earthsight -- 08 Aug 2022 

Lurching from Food Crisis to Food Crisis - GRAIN, 08 Jul 2022 

Sink or Swim: Forest Declaration Assessment - Forest Declaration Platform, Mar 2022 

From Land Grab to Soil Grab - GRAIN, 24 Feb 2022 

Inequality Kills​: Oxfam Briefing Paper, Jan 2022 

PLANT Remembers Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu - December 26, 2021 

Africa's Choice: Africa’s Green Revolution has Failed, Time to Change Course 
Timothy Wise, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy -- 28 Jul 2020

US Supreme Court Underwrites Settler Violence Upon Indigenous Communities -
​Indigenous Environmental Network, 30 Jun 2020 

Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2020 
Indigenous Environmental Network et al -- 18 Mar 2020 

Destruction of Habitat and Loss of Biodiversity are Creating the Perfect Conditions for Diseases like COVID-19 to Emerge 
John Vidal, Ensia --17 Mar 2020 

‘Bees are sentinels’: Mass bee die-offs signal the wider impact of Brazil’s pesticide boom 
Unearthed.Greenpeace -- 27 Feb 2020 

Pesticide Giants Make Billions from Bee Harming & Carcinogenic Chemicals 
Laurent Gaberel & Géraldine Viret, Public Eye and Unearthed -- 20 Feb 2020 

The Next Agribusiness Takeover: Multilateral Food Agencies 
ETC Group -- Feb 2020

Insect Apocalypse: Roadmap to Recovery 
Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian -- 06 Jan 2020 
(See also: International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery)
(See also: 'Insect Apocalypse Poses Risk to all Life on Earth')

Amazon Tipping Point: Last Chance for Action 
Thomas E. Lovejoy, Carlos Nobre, Science Advances, Vol. 5, No. 12 -- 20 Dec 2019 ​

Plastic Atlas: Facts & Figures about the World of Synthetic Polymers 
Henrich Böll Stiftung ... Nov 2019 

Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services  -- Wikipedia
Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services: Biodiversity in Decline  
UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES),
E. S. Brondizio et al -- approved by the IPBES Plenary at its 7th session in May 2019
 
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Making a Killing: Holding Corporations to Account for Land and Human Rights Violations 
TRÓCAIRE - 06 March 2019 
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Missing Pathways to 1.5°C: The Role of the Land Sector in Ambitious Climate Action 

Hands Off Mother Earth: Manifesto Against Geoengineering
The Geoengineering Monitor -- Oct 2018 
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Human and Environmental Rights are Interdependent: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment 
Human Rights Council, Thirty-seventh session, Agenda item 3 -- 26 Feb–23 Mar 2018

Ocean Atlas: Facts and Figures on the Threats to Our Marine Ecosystems 
Ulrich Bähr, Chief Executive Editor, jointly published by Heinrich Böll Foundation Schleswig-Holstein, the Heinrich Böll Foundation (national foundation), and the University of Kiel’s Future Ocean Cluster of Excellence -- 2017 
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Recognizes a Right to a Healthy Environment in Recent Advisory Opinion
Jose Felix Pinto-Bazurco, Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law -- 15 Nov 2017

Agrifood Atlas: Facts and Figures about the Corporations that Control what we Eat 
Christine Chemnitz et al, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Friends of the Earth -- Oct 2017 
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Neonicotinoid Insecticides Negatively Affect Ovary Development in Bumblebees 
The Organic Center -- 02 Aug 2017
 

Agriculture, Food Systems, Diets and Nutrition in Zambia 
Marjolein Mwanamwange & Jody Harris, IIED and HIVOS -- May 2017 
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Alternatives to Neonicotinoid Insecticide-Coated Corn: Agroecological Methods are Better for Farmers and the Environment 
Doug Gurian-Sherman, Center for Food Safety -- 22 May 2017

The Green Economy: Giving Immunity to Criminals 
Joanna Cabello, World Rainforest Movement, Bulletin 222 -- 21 Mar 2016 
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International Contradictions on Farmers' Rights: The interrelations between the International Treaty, its Article 9 on Farmers’ Rights, and Relevant Instruments of UPOV and WIPO
The Berne Declaration and the Third World Network -- Oct 2015 

A Tale of Two Food Prizes
Eric Holt-Giménez, Truthout Op-Ed -- 12 Oct 2015 

Don't Be Fooled!  Civil Society Says NO to "Climate Smart Agriculture” and Urges Decision-Makers to Support AgroEcology 
COP21 Statement -- Sep 2015 

AFAP (African Fertilizer Agribusiness Partnership) in Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania - for Profits or People?
African Centre for Biodiversity -- Aug 2015

GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health 
Phillip Landrigan, M.D. and Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine: 373-693-693 -- 20 Aug 2015 

Pope Francis to Popular Movements 
Vatican Information Service -- 10 July 2015 
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Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food 
Kari Hamerschlag, Anna Lappé, Stacy Malkan, Friends of the Earth -- June 2015 
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The New Science of Sustainable Food Systems: Overcoming Barriers to Food Systems Reform
IPES-Food (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems) -- May 2015 
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How Many More?: New Report Shows Killings of Environmental Activists are Increasing, with Indigenous Communities Hardest Hit 
Global Witness -- 20 Apr 2015 

Feeding the World Without GMO Crops 
Emily Cassidy, Environmental Working Group -- Mar 2015 
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Soy Story: Factory Farming, Land Grabs and the Destruction of Argentina [Video] 12:14 minutes
Compassion in World Farming -- 19 Feb 2015 
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Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk 
Oliver Milman, The Guardian -- 15 Jan 2015 
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Altered Genes, Twisted Truth [Book]
Steven M. Druker, Clear River Press -- 2015 

The Future Climate of Amazonia: Scientific Assessment Report 
Antonio Donato Nobre, Articulación Regional Amazônica, Brazil -- Oct 2014 
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Genetic Modification Trails Conventional Breeding By Far [Article]
Institute of Science in Society -- 15 Oct 2014 

Unfolding Truth: Dismantling The World Bank’s Myths on Agriculture and Development 
Alice Martin-Pr
ével,  Oakland Institute -- 04 Oct 2014 ​

Climate-Smart Greenwash: Why we Reject the Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture 
NGO open letter to the UN Climate Summit, 23 Sep 2014 -- Sep 2014 

Farmers Rights: Open Letter to the Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture -- 18 Sep 2014 

Clever Name, Losing Game? How Climate Smart Agriculture is Sowing Confusion in the Food Movement
Teresa Anderson, ActionAid International -- Sep 2014 

Running to Stand Still: Small-Scale Farmers and the Green Revolution in Malawi
African Centre for Biosafety -- Sep 2014 
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Who Benefits from GM Crops?: An Industry Built on Myths 
Myrto Pispini et al, Friends of the Earth International -- 31 Mar 2014 
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Anonymous Companies Against the Public Good 
TED Talk by Charmian Gooch, Co-Founder & Director, Global Witness -- 03 Mar 2014 

Global Forest Watch -- Dynamic, Online Map 
World Resources Institute -- Launched 20 Feb 2014 

The Transformative Potential of the Right to Food [Full Report] 
Olivier de Shutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food 
Final Report to the Human Rights Council, Twenty-fifth session, Agenda item 3 -- 24 Jan 2014 

Meat Atlas: Facts and Figures About the Animals We Eat 
Heinrich Böll  Siftung, Friends of the Earth Europe - Jan 2014 
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Food Businesses and the Right to Food 
Olivier de Shutter, Article for the Food Ethics Council -- Winter 2013 Volume 8 Issue 4 

Rising to the Challenge: Changing Course to Feed the World in 2050
Timothy A. Wise and Kristen Sundell, ActionAid USA -- Oct 2013 
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10 Years of Failure: Farmers Deceived by GM Corn [Video]
MASIPAG (Philippines) - 16 Oct 2013 

Assessing a Decade of Right to Food Progress 
Olivier de Shutter, Report to the UN General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food  -- 07 Aug 2013 

GM Crops Won't Help African Farmers 
Million Belay (Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa) and Ruth Nyambura (African Biodiversity Network), Poverty Matters Blog, The Guardian (UK) -- 24 June 2013 

Organic Industry Structure: Aquisitions and Alliances, Top 100 Food Processors in North America
Cornucopia Institute -- May 2013 
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Genetically Modified Crops: Another Look at the Evidence 
Joel Dunn, The Permaculture Research Institute -- 31 May 2013 

GMOs: Fooling -er, "Feeding" the World for 20 Years [Article]
GRAIN -- 15 May 2013 

30 Years of Genetically Engineered Plants: Consequences of Commercial Growing in the US 
Dr. Christoph Then, Testbiotech Institute for Independent Impact Assessment in Biotechnology -- 2013

Ban GMOs Now: Health and Environmental Hazards Especially in Light of the New Genetics
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho & Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji, Institute of Science in Society -- 2013 
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African Civil Society Petitions African Union to Ban GMOs -- Nov 2012

New Techniques for the Alteration of the Living: For whom?  Why? 
Inf'OGM -- Sep 2012 
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African Statement on AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) -- Sep 2012

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA): Laying the Groundwork for the Commercialization of African Agriculture, African Centre for Biosafety -- Sep 2012

Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the U.S. - The first sixteen years
Charles M. Benbrook, Centre for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, SpringerOpen Publications -- 28 Sep 2012 

Sacred Voices: What Our Sacred Natural Sites Mean to Us [Video]
The GAIA Foundation and the African Biodiversity Network -- 07 Sep 2012 
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Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds 
Interview with Bill Moyers -- 13 Jul 2012 

No Future Without Justice: Report of the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives
Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Development Dialogue, No 59 -- June 2012 
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https://www.wrm.org.uy//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/EJOLTplantations.pdf: Conflicts, trends and Resistance Struggles
Winifridus Overbeek, Markus Kröger, Julien-François Gerber, EJOLT (Environmental Organizations, Liabilities and Trade) Report No. 3, -- June 2012

What Works for Women: Proven Approaches for Empowering Women Smallholders and Achieving Food Security
Published by Nine International NGOs -- 15 Mar 2012 
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Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007
Sophia Murphy and Timothy A. Wise, Global Development and Environment Institute, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy -- 18 Jan 2012 
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Agrifood Systems and the Right to an Adequate Diet  
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food -- Dec 2011 
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Low-Carbon Africa: Leapfrogging to a Green Future
Alison Doig and Mohamed Adow, Christian Aid UK -- Nov 2011 
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She's Alive - Beautiful - Finite - Hurting - Worth Dying For [Video]
Assembled by Vivek Chauhan -- 26 Jun 2011 
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The Kamburu Story: A Community-Led Response to Climate Change [video]
The African Biodiversity Network and the GAIA Foundation -- 2011 
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The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes: A Global Citizens' Report on the State of GMOs -- False Promises, Failed Technologies
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Navdanya, Debbie Barker, Centre for Food Safety, Caroline Lockhart, Navdanya International -- 2011 
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Food and Climate Change: The Forgotten Link
GRAIN -- 2011 
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Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops
Doug Gurian-Sherman, Union of Concerned Scientists -- 14 Apr 2009

Killing Fields: The Battle to Feed Factory Farms [Video]
The Ecologist Film Unit -- 2009

Stuffed and Starved: From Farm to Fork: The Hidden Battle For The World Food System [Book] 
Raj Patel, Melville House Publishing -- 2008 

Working for the Few: Political Capture and Economic Inequality 
Oxfam International -- 20 Jan 2014