Yeah, never a good thing when food is used as a geopolitical weapon...

Just wanted to note that a large part of the exported grain is used to feed the pigs.
It's not Ukraine's fault. Has more to do with shitty global food systems and that the subsidized industrisl farms in Europe can pay a higher price than the hungry poor in the global south.
Still, indirectly, Ukraine's grain export lower the world market price slightly. But also this needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, as cheap grain allows the urban poor access to food, while driving smallscale farmers into bankrupcy. 🙁

The solution?

#Agroecology, and #foodsovereignity. Supporting #peasantagriculture and the #foodtransition.

For the war: Give Ukraine long range precision missiles to take out Russian logistics. This would even make it unnecessary to massacre Russian convicts and mobiks with horrible cluster bombs 😢

@matthewtoad43

The idea of solving hunger on the African continent with GM (genetically modified) crops is terribly flawed.

However, usually (and this article is no exception) a real analysis about the socio-economic reasons for hunger is totally absent.

There are so many things to say:

* Hunger is currently not a problem of production, but of *distribution and access*.

* Food security (there is enough food on the market) is not the same as food sovereignity (th provision of food is in the hands of local comminities, resulting in a resilient system).

* GM crops are developed mainly by profit-driven corporations. These corporations have neither an interest nor an incentive to help the poor. In the best case, GM crops are developed by public institutions, but also then ideology and institutions prevent real transdiscipliniary cooperation with small-scale farmers.

* Subsidized (publicly funded scientific innovation is also a subsidy!) industrial agriculture destroys soils, water, the climate and biodiversity. The social and environmental costs are then externalized to all of us. Small-scalle farmers, the backbone of food provision, especially for the rural poor in the global south (including themselves) get outcompeted and fall into poverty.

* GM crops are industrial hybrid crops. Maybe the researchers achieve to insert one gene to resolve a specific problem. But the crop will still require large inputs of synthetic fertilizer or pesticides. Additionally, until now, seeds from GM crops cannot be multiplied and resown by the farmers, increasing their dependency on companies, markets and fossil fuels.

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#Agriculture
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@TheConversationAfrica

@Eceni
:ecoanarchism_heart:
#AgroEcology #PeasantFarming #PeasantAgriculture #Greenwashing #Danone #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegAg

💢 #GMOs are a threat to #PeasantAgriculture.
GM Techniques #patents on life are reinforcing #seeds control by few multinationals that dominate this market, destroying #farmers #autonomy #PeasantsRights #Right2Seeds #FoodSovereignty #ConsummersChoices #iChooseGMOFree
✍️ Sign this european petition:
https://www.eurovia.org/working-groups/seeds-and-genetically-modified-organisms-gmos

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