ID: 57007
Title: Farmer ' s rights or fools ' bargain?
Author: Guy Kastler
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Agricultural biodiversity
Abstract: The climate crisis adds another dimension of urgency in dealing with the world ' s dwindling agricultural biodiversity. The seeds of today will have to be adapted to changes in climate and the ensuing changes in ecosystems. Such adaptation can only be based on the wealth of agricultural biodiversity that farmers have created. Farmer ' s seeds and seed systems have never been more important to humanity, and yet never have they been more threatened. A growing array of laws and regulations spreads around the world to prevent famers from working with seeds, while new technologies, such as GMOs, put these seeds at risk of contamination and destruction. Meanwhile, the handful of seed corporations that now dominate the global seed market want unfettered access to the seeds that have been taken from farmers and stored in the world ' s gene banks.
In this context, the Governing Body of the International Treaty on plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture held its third session on 1-5 June 2009 in Tunis. Guy Kastler, the European delegate to La Via Campesina ' s Biodiversity Commission, and representative of the Reseau Semences Paysannes of France, explains what he sees as the failures of the Treaty and the opportunities and spaces for acion emerging from Tunis.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57006
Title: Real problems, false solutions
Author: None
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Methane emissions
Abstract: Three activities - no-till agriculture, biochar and more intensified livestock farming with reduced methane emissions-are likely to benefit from increased funding because of their alleged role in combating global warming. What is the evidence that these activities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions? What will happen to the world ' s biodiversity and the global climate if these sectors are hugely expanded? And who is likely to benefit?
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57005
Title: The agribusiness lobby arrives in Copenhagen
Author: None
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Abstract: Until now, agriculture has been largely excluded from global carbon markets, but this is set to change in December 2009 at the Copenhagen conference. Agribusiness companies are lobbying hard to make a range of farming activities eligible for future funding under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). As a result, billions of dollars will almost certainly be invested in agriculture, mainly livestock production and plantations. What makes this prospect so alarming is that this huge investment, carried out in the name of mitigating the climate crisis, will be channelled largely to big agribusiness. And it is precisely their approach to farming and food production that has created so many of the problems we face today.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57004
Title: Earth matters - Tackling the climate crisis from the ground up
Author: Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: None
Abstract: None
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57003
Title: The international food system and the climate crisis
Author: Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Food sovereignty
Abstract: Today ' s global food system, with all its high-tech seeds and fancy packaging, cannot fulfil its most basic function of feeding people. Despite this monumental failure, there is no talk in the corridors of power of changing direction. Large and growing movments of people clamour for change, but the world ' s governments and international agencies keep pushing more of the same: more agribusiness, more industrial agriculture, more globalisation. As the planet moves into an accelerating period of climate change, driven, in large part, by this very model of agriculture, such failure to take meaningful action will rapidly worsen an already intolerable situation. But in the worldwide movement for food sovereignty, there is a promising way out.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57002
Title: Empty coasts, barren seas
Author: Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, July 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: None
Abstract: Gaining access to the territorial waters of many developing countries has been a goal of expanding global capital in recent years. It comes in different forms and under different names but with the single objective of extracting profits for big business. The European Union (EU) is at the forefront of this drive. Through fisheries partnership agreements (FPAs), the EU is able to sustain its lucrative fishing industry and export its overfishing problems to other parts of the world-Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific-often with disastrous consequences for local small fisheries. Now the EU is testing Asia ' s waters. In this article, GRAIN investigates how Asia ' s small fisheries stand under the proposed EU-ASEAN free trade agreement (FTA).
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57001
Title: The struggle against IPR in the Andes
Author: Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, July 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Biodiversity, privatisation
Abstract: In Ecaudor, Bolivia and Peru, initiatives have been taken recently that raise hopes that mechanisms might be created to stop the further privatisation of knowledge and life. So far, progress has been disappointing, with fundamental problems remaining unsolved. Once again, it is up to local people to defend knowledge and biodiversity against destruction and privatisation.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57000
Title: Mining law in Ecuador is anti-constitutional
Author: Gloria Chicaiza
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, July 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Natural resources
Abstract: Ecuador has based its economy on the extractin of natural resources. This process has arbitrarily used, abused and polluted the environment, and established an economic model characterised by external dependence, growth in internal and external debt, and the destruction of ecosystems. The recent introduction of the Ecuadorian Mining Law inaugurated a new episode in this story, which has characterised Ecuador since the country was founded: namely, basing economic development on a single commodity and degrading its natural resources.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 56999
Title: Saying "No" to mining
Author: None
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, July 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: None
Abstract: Over the last decade communities around the world have become more vociferous in their opposition to large mining projects that destroy their way of life, damage biodiversity and exacerbate the climate crisis. In this special feature, activities from India and Ecuador describe their struggles.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 56998
Title: The ' Cadastral divide ' : A view from the bridge
Author: Dr Rohan Bennett
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2012
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt, Ltd, Issue 11, Vol 02, June 2012
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: The ' cadastral divide ' describes the gap between countries that have effective land administration systems and those that do not. Here, we look at challenges on both sides with a view to bridging understandings, identifying shared challenges and determining where cadastral research and practice is headed in the near future.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 56997
Title: Railway Management: Fast track to efficiency
Author: Ron Bisio
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2012
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt, Ltd, Issue 10, Vol 02, May 2012
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: Geospatial systems
Abstract: Railway operators manage far-flung fleets of highly mobile assets running on thousand of kilometers of maintenance-intensive infrastruture. Geospatial systems are helping them reduce costs and increase utilisation of tracks and facilities.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 56996
Title: Air traffic: Tech for the skies
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2012
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt, Ltd, Issue 10, Vol 02, May 2012
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: Geospatial technology
Abstract: With growing air traffic volumes, there is a lot of demand on air traffic management to manage the congestion on the runways and in the skies. Geospatial technology can help address his demand.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 56995
Title: World Ocean Conference 2009 (WOC ' 09), 11-15 May, 2009, Manado, Indonesia
Author: None
Editor: None
Year: 2012
Publisher: The Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone, Issue 2, 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
Keywords: None
Abstract: None
Location: TE 15, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 56994
Title: An assessment of the exposure of large Port cities to coastal flooding: A global assessment
Author: Susan Hanson, Robert Nicholls, N Ranger, S Hallegatte, J Corfee-Morlot, C Herweijer, J Chateau
Editor: None
Year: 2012
Publisher: The Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone, Issue 2, 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
Keywords: None
Abstract: None
Location: TE 15, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 56993
Title: White Dam: a new gold producer in the Curnamona province
Author: Andrew McDonald, Jacinta Holland and Alasdair Cooke
Editor: None
Year: 2012
Publisher: DMITRE, Government of South Australia, Vol 59, December 2010
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Earth Resource Journal - Mesa
Keywords: None
Abstract: None
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None