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Countering Africa?s green revolution
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NAIROBI, 8 July 2013 (IRIN) - Civil society groups are taking on the policies of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), which promotes the use of genetically modified (GM) crops and Green Revolution technologies.
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They argue that GM and Green Revolution practices - those aimed at increasing developing countries? crop yields through specific innovations - will, in the long run, be detrimental to ecosystems across the continent. Earlier this month, a coalition of almost 60 civil society groups across Africa came out to protest AGRA ahead of the G8 Summit in London.
?Green Revolution technologies benefit relatively few farmers, often at the expense of the majority. These technologies produce concentration of land ownership, increasing economies of scale (production has to be at a large scale to get into and stay in markets), and a declining number of food-producing households in a context of limited other livelihood options,? they said in a sent to AGRA?s president, Jane Karuku.
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They also believe that the intellectual property of many plant types may be transferred to large multinational corporations as part of Green Revolution practices.
?
?Private ownership of knowledge and material resources 0(for example, seed and genetic materials) means the flow of royalties out of Africa into the hands of multinational corporations,? they said.
?
Technology for the needy
?
AGRA was founded in 2006 through a partnership between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It works with smallholder farmers across the continent by giving them microfinance loans, hybrid seeds and fertilizers to increase their crop yields. In this way, AGRA hopes to alleviate hunger and poverty across the continent.
?
The Green Revolution A period from the 1940s until the 1970s when, through the use of new technologies such as irrigation, improved seed, fertilizers and pesticides, as well as an economic environment that supported industrial agriculture, a massive increase in agriculture output in developing countries (particularly in Asia) occurred. Norman Borlaug, who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for improving agricultural technologies, is widely considered as the ?Father of the Green Revolution?, and is often credited with saving a billion lives through his innovations.
?There are millions of skilled farmers in Africa who simply need the tools,? said Sir Gordon Conway, a scientist and author of One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?, speaking by video message at an agriculture conference in Nairobi. In his book, he argues that both microcredits - to help smallholder farmers - and macro-investment are needed for farmers to benefit from Green Revolution technologies.
?
He believes traditionally marginalized groups - such as women, youth and ethnic minorities - will benefit from the use of new agricultural technologies targeted at smallholders, and that the total number of hungry will be drastically reduced. For example, Conway calculates that by ensuring female farmers have access to the same productive resources as men, the number of undernourished people globally could be reduced by 100 to 150 million.
?
?If we are going to feed some 9 billion people by 2050 and do that in environmentally sustainable ways and in the face of climate change, then we are going to need access to the very best that modern science can offer,? said Peter Hazell, a leading agriculture expert who has worked with the World Bank and International Food Policy Research Institute. ?All technologies have risks (e.g., cell phones may cause brain cancer) but as these things go, GM crops seem to be doing rather well.?
?
Serving corporate objectives
?
But civil society groups disagree. ?AGRA aims to move farmers in exactly the wrong direction, by encouraging them to take on debt in order to use more agrochemicals and corporate hybrid seeds,? Teresa Anderson of the Gaia Foundation told IRIN.
?
?For many years, NGOs across Africa have worked with farmers to encourage them to stop using fertilizers and pesticides, and to improve their soil health, their ecosystems, their seed diversity and their food sovereignty. AGRA is undoing a decade of agro-ecological progress in Africa by getting farmers into debt and back on the agribusiness treadmill,? she said.
?
?World over, the same companies that own the seeds also own the chemicals; it is a mafia-like cartel that has proven to be ruthless towards poor small-scale farmers?
Genetically modified crops are allowed to be used commercially in only three countries in Africa - Egypt, Burkina Faso and South Africa - according to Gareth Jones of the African Centre for Biosafety. Of these countries, only South Africa uses them extensively. Jones believes it is a mistake to think their model could be replicated elsewhere across the continent.
?
?The legacies of colonialism and then apartheid left South Africa with a well-resourced and supported white commercial farming sector, many of whom (including maize, cotton and soya farmers) cultivate on large pieces of land, using modern inputs,? he told IRIN via email. ?Projects to get smallholder farmers in South Africa to grow GM seed such as in the Makhathini Flats, though much heralded by the biotechnology industry at the time, have been largely unsuccessful.?
?
The Makhathini Flats project, which started to grow cotton in 2002, ended after just five years. High loan repayments on the seed and poor climate meant that smallholders were unable to afford to grow the crop. ?There is no reason to believe that the introduction of GM seeds would have different results in the rest of the continent,? Jones said. He accuses initiatives such as AGRA of spurring the push for greater use of genetically modified crops on the continent.
?
In September 2012, over 350 civil society organizations wrote a statement AGRA?s agricultural approaches.
?We are concerned that as a result of the AGRA seed program, the rich pool of African indigenous seed varieties will become the property of corporate seed companies, displacing and reducing farmers? access to indigenous varieties, and locking them into an expensive high-input agricultural system,? they said. Signatories included the African Biodiversity Network, the African Centre for Biosafety, Kenya Biotechnology Coalition, Participatory Ecological Land Use Management, and ActionAid Tanzania and Uganda.
?
These groups cite a study by the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, conducted with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN Environmental Programme, World Bank and others, which concluded that industrial agriculture is not likely to be majorly beneficial in mitigating hunger and poverty.
?
Patents or people?
?
In 2009, the three largest seed companies controlled more than a third of the global seeds market, according to a 2011 commissioned by the Commission on Genetic Modification.
?
Under most current legal frameworks, farmers growing patented seeds are not allowed to use the seeds naturally produced from their crops.? Large firms such as Monsanto routinely sue farmers who propagate their patented crops.
?
?World over, the same companies that own the seeds also own the chemicals; it is a mafia-like cartel that has proven to be ruthless towards poor small-scale farmers,? Ruth Nyambura of the African Biodiversity Network told IRIN.
?
But Karuku, AGRA?s president, insists the organization tries to collaborate with local partners to develop new breeds of seed. In Kenya, she said, they work with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, which then owns the patents to the seeds, not large multinational corporations.
?
She also pointed to growing populations and said that scarcity of land meant that African farmers needed to increase the productivity of their crops. With 239 million undernourished people in Africa, according to the FAO?s State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012, she said there is a need for strong action. ?If we don?t do anything, it will be way more than that,? she said. ?We should be worried.?
?
?Nobody forces farmers to grow GM crops, so if they prove less profitable than the alternatives, farmers will simply stop growing them,? noted Hazell. ?Farmers have been able to reduce the use of pesticides on many GM crops with significant environmental and health benefits.?
?
Still, the Gaia Foundation?s Anderson isn?t convinced. ?The most effective, and cost effective, strategy for African food security would be to revive seed-saving knowledge and practices among farmers,? she said. ?If you separate farmers from their traditional practices of seed saving, you destroy African farming.?
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NAIROBI, 8 July 2013 (IRIN) - Civil society groups are taking on the policies of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), which promotes the use of genetically modified (GM) crops and Green Revolution technologies.
?
They argue that GM and Green Revolution practices - those aimed at increasing developing countries? crop yields through specific innovations - will, in the long run, be detrimental to ecosystems across the continent. Earlier this month, a coalition of almost 60 civil society groups across Africa came out to protest AGRA ahead of the G8 Summit in London.
?Green Revolution technologies benefit relatively few farmers, often at the expense of the majority. These technologies produce concentration of land ownership, increasing economies of scale (production has to be at a large scale to get into and stay in markets), and a declining number of food-producing households in a context of limited other livelihood options,? they said in a sent to AGRA?s president, Jane Karuku.
?
They also believe that the intellectual property of many plant types may be transferred to large multinational corporations as part of Green Revolution practices.
?
?Private ownership of knowledge and material resources 0(for example, seed and genetic materials) means the flow of royalties out of Africa into the hands of multinational corporations,? they said.
?
Technology for the needy
?
AGRA was founded in 2006 through a partnership between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It works with smallholder farmers across the continent by giving them microfinance loans, hybrid seeds and fertilizers to increase their crop yields. In this way, AGRA hopes to alleviate hunger and poverty across the continent.
?
The Green Revolution A period from the 1940s until the 1970s when, through the use of new technologies such as irrigation, improved seed, fertilizers and pesticides, as well as an economic environment that supported industrial agriculture, a massive increase in agriculture output in developing countries (particularly in Asia) occurred. Norman Borlaug, who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for improving agricultural technologies, is widely considered as the ?Father of the Green Revolution?, and is often credited with saving a billion lives through his innovations.
?There are millions of skilled farmers in Africa who simply need the tools,? said Sir Gordon Conway, a scientist and author of One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?, speaking by video message at an agriculture conference in Nairobi. In his book, he argues that both microcredits - to help smallholder farmers - and macro-investment are needed for farmers to benefit from Green Revolution technologies.
?
He believes traditionally marginalized groups - such as women, youth and ethnic minorities - will benefit from the use of new agricultural technologies targeted at smallholders, and that the total number of hungry will be drastically reduced. For example, Conway calculates that by ensuring female farmers have access to the same productive resources as men, the number of undernourished people globally could be reduced by 100 to 150 million.
?
?If we are going to feed some 9 billion people by 2050 and do that in environmentally sustainable ways and in the face of climate change, then we are going to need access to the very best that modern science can offer,? said Peter Hazell, a leading agriculture expert who has worked with the World Bank and International Food Policy Research Institute. ?All technologies have risks (e.g., cell phones may cause brain cancer) but as these things go, GM crops seem to be doing rather well.?
?
Serving corporate objectives
?
But civil society groups disagree. ?AGRA aims to move farmers in exactly the wrong direction, by encouraging them to take on debt in order to use more agrochemicals and corporate hybrid seeds,? Teresa Anderson of the Gaia Foundation told IRIN.
?
?For many years, NGOs across Africa have worked with farmers to encourage them to stop using fertilizers and pesticides, and to improve their soil health, their ecosystems, their seed diversity and their food sovereignty. AGRA is undoing a decade of agro-ecological progress in Africa by getting farmers into debt and back on the agribusiness treadmill,? she said.
?
?World over, the same companies that own the seeds also own the chemicals; it is a mafia-like cartel that has proven to be ruthless towards poor small-scale farmers?
Genetically modified crops are allowed to be used commercially in only three countries in Africa - Egypt, Burkina Faso and South Africa - according to Gareth Jones of the African Centre for Biosafety. Of these countries, only South Africa uses them extensively. Jones believes it is a mistake to think their model could be replicated elsewhere across the continent.
?
?The legacies of colonialism and then apartheid left South Africa with a well-resourced and supported white commercial farming sector, many of whom (including maize, cotton and soya farmers) cultivate on large pieces of land, using modern inputs,? he told IRIN via email. ?Projects to get smallholder farmers in South Africa to grow GM seed such as in the Makhathini Flats, though much heralded by the biotechnology industry at the time, have been largely unsuccessful.?
?
The Makhathini Flats project, which started to grow cotton in 2002, ended after just five years. High loan repayments on the seed and poor climate meant that smallholders were unable to afford to grow the crop. ?There is no reason to believe that the introduction of GM seeds would have different results in the rest of the continent,? Jones said. He accuses initiatives such as AGRA of spurring the push for greater use of genetically modified crops on the continent.
?
In September 2012, over 350 civil society organizations wrote a statement AGRA?s agricultural approaches.
?We are concerned that as a result of the AGRA seed program, the rich pool of African indigenous seed varieties will become the property of corporate seed companies, displacing and reducing farmers? access to indigenous varieties, and locking them into an expensive high-input agricultural system,? they said. Signatories included the African Biodiversity Network, the African Centre for Biosafety, Kenya Biotechnology Coalition, Participatory Ecological Land Use Management, and ActionAid Tanzania and Uganda.
?
These groups cite a study by the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, conducted with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN Environmental Programme, World Bank and others, which concluded that industrial agriculture is not likely to be majorly beneficial in mitigating hunger and poverty.
?
Patents or people?
?
In 2009, the three largest seed companies controlled more than a third of the global seeds market, according to a 2011 commissioned by the Commission on Genetic Modification.
?
Under most current legal frameworks, farmers growing patented seeds are not allowed to use the seeds naturally produced from their crops.? Large firms such as Monsanto routinely sue farmers who propagate their patented crops.
?
?World over, the same companies that own the seeds also own the chemicals; it is a mafia-like cartel that has proven to be ruthless towards poor small-scale farmers,? Ruth Nyambura of the African Biodiversity Network told IRIN.
?
But Karuku, AGRA?s president, insists the organization tries to collaborate with local partners to develop new breeds of seed. In Kenya, she said, they work with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, which then owns the patents to the seeds, not large multinational corporations.
?
She also pointed to growing populations and said that scarcity of land meant that African farmers needed to increase the productivity of their crops. With 239 million undernourished people in Africa, according to the FAO?s State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012, she said there is a need for strong action. ?If we don?t do anything, it will be way more than that,? she said. ?We should be worried.?
?
?Nobody forces farmers to grow GM crops, so if they prove less profitable than the alternatives, farmers will simply stop growing them,? noted Hazell. ?Farmers have been able to reduce the use of pesticides on many GM crops with significant environmental and health benefits.?
?
Still, the Gaia Foundation?s Anderson isn?t convinced. ?The most effective, and cost effective, strategy for African food security would be to revive seed-saving knowledge and practices among farmers,? she said. ?If you separate farmers from their traditional practices of seed saving, you destroy African farming.?
?
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Snowden affair clouds U.S. attempts to press China to curb cyber theft
By Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Revelations by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden will make it harder for the United States to confront China at talks this week over the alleged cyber theft of trade secrets worth hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
Snowden's disclosures of American electronic surveillance around the world give China an argument to counter U.S. complaints that it steals private intellectual property (IP) from U.S. companies and research centers.
Cyber security is at the center of high-level meetings between the two countries in Washington that will show whether a positive tone struck by President Barack Obama and new Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit last month can translate into cooperation on difficult issues.
Top U.S. officials from Obama down have long tried to convince China to recognize a clear line between the kind of cyber espionage by spy agencies revealed by Snowden and the stealing of technology.
"This Snowden thing has muddied the waters in a terrible way," said James McGregor, author of a book on China's authoritarian capitalism and industrial policy.
"China would rather have the waters muddy, because they can say 'You do it. We do it. What's the big deal?' and the cyber theft against companies will go on and on," he said by telephone from China, where he is senior counselor for APCO Worldwide, a U.S. business consultancy.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said last week that U.S. officials will press China at the talks on cyber theft, a problem he described as "just different from other kinds of issues in the cyber area.
Many countries spy on each other, but U.S. officials say China is unique in the amount of state-sponsored IP theft it carries out as it tries to catch up with the United States in economic power and technological prowess.
Last week the U.S. Department of Justice charged Chinese wind turbine maker Sinovel Wind Group Co and two of its employees with stealing software source coding from U.S.-based AMSC in an alleged theft worth $800 million.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce hopes "to see a clear indication that China recognizes thefts of trade secrets, whether by cyber or other means, is stealing property and will bring the full force of its laws to curb this," said Jeremie Waterman, the group's senior director for Greater China.
Beijing regularly parries complaints about Chinese hacking into the computers of U.S. businesses by saying that China is itself a major victim of cyber espionage. Chinese officials have dismissed as unconvincing recent U.S. official and private-sector reports attributing large-scale hacking of American networks to China.
China's official Xinhua news agency last month said the Snowden case showed the United States was "the biggest villain in our age" and a hypocrite for complaining about Chinese cyber attacks.
China's stance appears to be bolstered by Snowden's revelations of widespread surveillance by the National Security Agency and his assertion that the agency hacked into critical network infrastructure at universities in China and in Hong Kong.
Snowden first fled to Hong Kong before his leaks to newspapers became public last month, and has subsequently gone to Moscow. He is believed to be holed up in the transit area of the city's Sheremetyevo International Airport and has been trying to find a country that would give him sanctuary.
'OUT OF BOUNDS' SPYING
Now in their fifth year, the annual U.S.-Chinese talks, known as the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, will cover topics from U.S. concerns about North Korea's nuclear weapons and expanding U.S.-China military ties to climate change and access to Chinese financial markets.
China's exchange-rate policy is on the agenda, although it has receded as a issue with the gradual strengthening of the yuan and a reduction of huge current account imbalances.
This year Secretary of State John Kerry and Lew host Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Vice Premier Wang Yang for the first S&ED session since China's once-a-decade leadership change in March when Xi took over.
The meetings follow Obama's summit last month with Xi in California, where the two men developed what aides called a productive relationship. Nevertheless, Obama demanded Chinese action to halt what he called "out of bounds" cyber spying.
Civilian and military officials from the two countries discussed international law and practices in cyberspace at low-level talks on Monday. Cyber security is due to come up at other meetings throughout the week that will also likely address U.S. accusations that Beijing gained access electronically to Pentagon weapons designs.
IP theft costs U.S. businesses $320 billion a year, equal to the annual worth of U.S. exports to Asia, authors of a recent report say.
A bipartisan group of high-ranking former U.S. officials known as the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property said in a May report that China accounts for between 50 percent and 80 percent of IP theft suffered by U.S. firms.
Cyber theft of industrial designs, business strategies and trade secrets is only a portion of IP pilfering.
IP theft more commonly involves "planted employees, bribed employees, employees who were appealed to on the basis of nationalism and all the traditional means of espionage, often accompanied by cyber," said Richard Ellings, president of the National Bureau of Asian Research think tank, who co-wrote the report.
The U.S. District Court in Manhattan charged three New York University researchers in May with conspiring to take bribes from Chinese medical and research outfits for details about NYU research into magnetic resonance imaging technology.
Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Homeland Security Department for IP infringements rose 159 percent and indictments increased 264 percent from 2009-13, according to a report released in June by the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.
The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property called for tough penalties including banking sanctions, bans on imports and blacklisting in U.S. financial markets.
(Editing by Alistair Bell and Xavier Briand)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/snowden-affair-clouds-u-attempts-press-china-curb-213313008.html
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Maker Camp 2013 kicks off six weeks of DIY fun for teens (video)
Ah, summer camp. Those halcyon days of imagining every creepy nighttime sound is a hungry, angry bear. Starting today, Google and Make (the brains behind Maker Faire) are launching a different kind of summer extravaganza with Maker Camp, a free six-week program open to Google+ users between the ages of 13 and 18. The online camp will offer daily DIY activities -- like a bike-powered phone charger -- with a live Google+ Hangout to discuss the project with expert makers. Additionally, campers will go on virtual field trips every Friday to places they otherwise might never see, like NASA's Ames Research Center. This year, Maker Camp will also include affiliate campsites at local libraries and youth centers, stocked with nifty gadgets like soldering kits, LEDs, Raspberry Pi boards and Arduino microcontrollers. For more info, check out the video after the break or register by following Make on Google+. Hungry, angry bears need not apply.
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Will Rick Perry announce 2016 White House bid?
Rick Perry's announcement Monday in San Antonio may settle whether he'll run for a fourth term as governor ? or open the door to a presidential bid in 2016. But as his 'oops' moment in 2012 signals, he's not predictable.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks in Grapevine, Texas, on June 27. On Monday, Governor Perry has invited friends and supporters to San Antonio and the country?s largest Caterpillar equipment dealership to announce his future plans. The longest-serving governor in Texas history is expected to reveal if he?ll seek a fourth full term in office next year.
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The conventional wisdom is that this exciting future does not include Mr. Perry running in 2014 for a fourth full term as Texas governor.
?The smart money is on him passing on another bid with an eye on something bigger,? writes Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza on ?The Fix? blog Monday.
After all, why would Perry want the strain and stress of another gubernatorial bid? He?s already the longest-serving governor in Texas history. Polls show him with a comfortable lead over his most likely primary challenger, Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott. He has nothing left to prove in the Lone Star State.
Well, almost nothing. Polls also show that Texans would prefer the state?s GOP Sen. Ted Cruz over Perry if both men run for president. And that?s perhaps the second part of Monday?s Perry announcement: He may unveil something aimed at helping erase the unfortunate image left by his hapless 2012 campaign, which seemed to show that Texas was as far as his political career would progress.
Perry?s ?oops? moment in a televised GOP debate, when he uttered that word after forgetting the federal departments he had vowed to eliminate, was one of the lowlights (or highlights, depending on your view) of the entire primary process. It appeared to symbolize the campaign of someone who was just not ready or able to compete for higher office.
?Refurbishing his reputation on the national stage may be what he?s ultimately seeking,? writes veteran national political reporter David Catanese on his ?The Run 2016? blog.
Perry has played coy in recent days when asked the 2016 question. It?s ?an option,? he said Sunday on Fox News.
He?s unlikely to flatly announce Monday that he?s running, of course. That?s not how modern presidential campaigns work, in part due to campaign finance laws that restrict how certain contributions can be used.
Instead, he may say something vague and uplifting about wanting to remain a force in the US political world. Then, he might unveil a new vehicle for his aspirations, such as a "super PAC" that could fund preliminary national travel in the next year or so.
This would clear the way for Attorney General Abbott to succeed Perry in Texas, and allow him to raise money for other politicians, winning new friends and influencing new people.
Or all this could be wrong. As the ?oops? shows, Perry is not a predictable politician. Former Perry aide Robert Black recently told the Texas Tribune, ?for those out there trying to read the tea leaves don?t. Because you?re probably going to be wrong.?
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