Manifestos of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture

by Navdanya International

The Manifesto on the Future of Seeds outlines ways and means to strengthen and accelerate the movement toward sustainable agriculture, food sovereignty, biodiversity and agricultural diversity and help defend the rights of farmers to save, share, use and improve seeds, as well as to enhance our collective capacity to adapt to the hazards and uncertainties of environmental and economic change.

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The Manifesto on the Future of Food develops in detail principles on which to base the transition to a sustainable food and agricultural system as outlined in the Florence Declaration on the Global Rights to Food. Most importantly it sets out practical vision, ideas and programs toward ensuring that food and agriculture become more socially and ecologically sustainable, more accessible, and toward putting food quality, food safety and public health above corporate profits.

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The Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security highlights the need to change to a productive model that minimizes the system’s vulnerability to external shocks and hazards and that contributes sustainably to mitigating the effects of climate change, based on a strong multifunctionality able to maximize the role of agriculture as a service of the ecosystem and as a tool to strengthen such system, and that guarantees family farming a pivotal role in a new system of production.

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The Manifesto on the Future of Knowledge Systems: knowledge sovereignty for a healthy planet makes evident that the multiple crises that face humanity today — the financial implosion and economic collapse, climate chaos and the energy and food crises — are rooted in a reductionist, fragmented and mechanical way of thinking, with the world being equated to a huge machine, free to be manipulated and improved at will. A new way of thinking is vital for the return to a balanced and healthy planet, one based on sustainability, resilience and equity. Some of the themes addressed include: corporate control of science and the merging of knowledge and power; the commercialization of knowledge and biopiracy; the need to integrate traditional and indigenous cultural knowledge with independent science.

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Source : http://permaculture.org.au/2012/08/20/manifestos-of-the-international-commission-on-the-future-of-food-and-agriculture/

Agnès Rousseaux : La nourriture du futur que nous concocte l’industrie agroalimentaire

http://www.bastamag.net/article2498.html

Hamburgers in vitro, fromages de synthèse, glu de porc, vache ou poisson transgénique… Le tout agrémenté d’une bonne pincée de chimie. L’industrie agroalimentaire multiplie les expérimentations, et commence à inonder le marché de ces nouveaux produits, davantage fabriqués en usines ou en labos que dans les champs. Objectif : nourrir la planète au moindre coût. Sans trop s’attarder sur les conséquences sanitaires et écologiques. Et sans pitié pour les cobayes que nous sommes. Basta ! vous présente le menu agro-industriel de demain.

Miam !

Cela ressemble à de la guimauve rose liquide. Cette mixture de viande est obtenue en passant les carcasses de poulet ou de porc dans une centrifugeuse à haute température, ce qui permet de récupérer le moindre morceau de barbaque. Les tendons, graisses, tissus conjonctifs sont transformés en pâte. À l’arrivée dans l’assiette, le « lean finely textured beef » (bœuf maigre à texture fine) est utilisé depuis quinze ans « sans restrictions » aux États-Unis.
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TEDxBloomington - Keith Johnson "Food Security and Resilence"

http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.com

Keith Johnson was raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (where he learned at an early age he was related to Johnny Appleseed), and has been a commercial landscaper, stonemason, and organic gardener since 1976 in places as varied as subtropical Bay Area of California, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Michigan, & the mountains of W. North Carolina. After devouring Permaculture One in 1978 he continued to learn all he could on the subject. He's been teaching Permaculture since '95, has instructed more than 700 students, many of those through Indiana University's annual Design Course which began in 2003. He's taught or trained with Bill Mollison, Larry Santoyo, Tom Ward, Penny Livingston, Peter Bane, Chuck Marsh, Starhawk, and Jerome Osentowski.

Now resident in Bloomington, Indiana, Keith participates in a number of local activism projects including the editorial guild of the Permaculture Activist, the founding of Transition Bloomington (Indiana's first Transition Town Initiative), boardmember of the Local Growers Guild, contributor to Bloomington's Peak Oil Task Force, member of the Bloomington Permaculture Guild & member of the Bloomington Food Policy Council. A frequent public speaker and radio interviewee, he works constantly to share a vision of cultural and ecological regeneration and continues to provide ecological design and consultation services via Patterns for Abundance.

Keith's presentation at TEDxBloomington included a remarkable visual presentation of the transformation of the suburban forest garden he co-manages on the 2/3 acre site where he homesteads with Peter Bane and a regular flow of interns.

La Via Campesina em Movimento... Soberania Alimentar Já!

Vean este documental de 20 minutos de duración y difúndanlo entre sus vecinos, amigos, comunidades, organizaciones locales, en centros culturales, festivales de cine, manifestaciones... Pueden incluso organizar una proyección seguida de un debate al que puedan invitar a campesinos y autoridades locales o a quien esté interesado.