400 Global Cities Vs. Monsanto

Support the Monsanto Tribunal: A Message from OCA's International Direct...

OCA's International Director Ronnie Cummins outlines plans for holding Monsanto accountable for crimes against humanity and nature in the people's court in The Hague, in October. OCA will also help organize worldwide protests to coincide with the citizens tribunal and World Food Day, October 16, 2016.

Pat Mooney, Executive Director of the ETC Group

Pat Mooney has more than four decades experience working in international civil society, first addressing aid and development issues and then focusing on food, agriculture and commodity trade. In 1977 Mooney co-founded RAFI (Rural Advancement Fund International, renamed ETC Group in 2001). He received The Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel Prize") in the Swedish Parliament in 1985 and the Pearson Peace Prize from Canada's Governor General in 1998. He has also received the American "Giraffe Award" given to people "who stick their necks out."

The author or co-author of several books on the politics of biotechnology and biodiversity, Pat Mooney is widely regarded as an authority on issues of global governance, corporate concentration, and intellectual property monopoly. Although much of ETC's work continues to emphasize plant genetic resources and agricultural biodiversity, the work expanded in the early 1980s to include biotechnology. In the late 1990s, the work expanded more to encompass a succession of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology, geoengineering, and new developments in genomics and neurosciences.

http://www.etcgroup.org/users/pat-mooney

Dr. Ray Seidler, Former Senior Scientist of the EPA: Vote YES on 92!

Monsanto Supersizes Farmers' Weed Problem--but Science Can Solve It

Argentina the bad seeds

Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent

GMO myths busted

10 Years of Failure, Farmers Deceived by GM Corn

The film entitled "10 Years of Failure, Farmers Deceived by GM corn" shows the dire situation of corn farmers in the Philippines who have adopted GM corn. Amidst protests from farmers, scientists, consumers and basic sectors, GM corn was commercialized in the Philippines in 2003. At present, there are about 8 varieties of single, stacked-trait and pyramided GM corn approved by the government for direct planting. It is now planted in about 685,317 hectares of agricultural land allotted for corn.

The film documentary is based on the study done by MASIPAG on the socio-economic impacts of GM corn on farmers' lives and livelihood after more than 10 years of commercialization. In the film, GM corn farmers relate how they became indebted because of the rising cost of GM corn seeds and increasing cost and quantity of inputs being used. The film also shared the farmers account on the effect of GM corn farming such as emergence of new pests, soil erosion, corn contamination and human and animal health impacts. Farmers also shared the difficulty to go back to traditional or organic corn farming because of the loss of traditional seeds and practices replaced by GM corn farming and the effects of neighboring GM corn plantations. The film documentary covers the islands of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. 

For more information on the study, please visit www.masipag.org.

Film produced by Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG) and KI Multimedia

PBS report: GMO Seeds Grow into Big Fight on Kauai

Ronnie Cummins on Turning the Tide Against Monsanto!

What are superweeds?

Eric Holt-Gimenez at anti-Monsanto rally, 5/25/13

Charla de Eric Holt-Giménez en la protesta mundial contra Monsanto el sábado pasado. Tiene puesta la camisa que le regalaron en Puerto Rico! El hace referencia a nuestra nación a los 3 minutos de comenzado el video.

The United States of GMO's