Climate Change Resource Guide
- The international food system and the climate crisis
- GRAIN, 2009
- This article is about the inability of the global food system to fulfill its most basic function of feeding people while agribusiness corporations that control the food chain are amassing billions of ...
- The soils of war: the real agenda behind agricultural reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq
- GRAIN, 2009
- This briefing determines that the US’s agricultural reconstruction work in Afghanistan and Iraq is an intrinsic part of the US military campaign. It asserts that the US pushes neo-liberal pol...
- Rice land grabs undermine food sovereignty in Africa
- GRAIN, 2009
- In the wake of the 2008 global food crisis, African capitals have been buzzing with renewed talk of the need for food self-sufficiency, and rice is often at the top of government agendas. Although eve...
- Lessons from a green revolution in South Africa
- GRAIN, 2008
- This paper examines the outcome of massive food production programme (MFPP) by the Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture (ECDA) as part of its green revolution strategy. The aim of the program was to...
- Getting out of the food crisis
- GRAIN, 2008
- The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlig...
- Bt cotton in KwaZulu Natal: technological triumph but institutional failure
- M. Gouse;J. Kirsten;B. Shankar / GRAIN, 2008
- This paper explores the technological triumphs and institutional failures of Bt cotton amongst small-scale farmers in the Makhatini Flats of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. In the1998/1999...
- Tarnishing silver bullets: Bt technology adoption, bounded rationality and the outbreak of secondary pest infestations in China
- S. Wang;D.R. Just;P. Pinstrup-Andersen / GRAIN, 2006
- The adoption of Bt cotton has had a huge impact on global cotton production. Many studies have focused on the potentially positive impact of Bt and the savings on pesticides targeting primary pests...
- Can the poor help GM crops? Technology, representation and cotton in the Makhathini Flats, South Africa
- H. Witt;R. Patel;M. Schnurr / GRAIN, 2006
- The adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton in South Africa’s Makhathini Flats in 1998 was heralded as a case in which agricultural biotechnology could benefit smallholder farmers, and a...
- Livestock breeding in the hands of corporations
- S. Gura / GRAIN, 2008
- This paper explores developments in the global livestock industry and their impact on smallholder farmers and the environment in developing countries. In particular, it considers the effect of...
- Contract farming in the world’s poultry industry
- GRAIN, 2008
- This paper examines contract farming in the poultry sectors of Brazil and Thailand. It explores the benefits and problems that small farmers face as a result of large company control over the poult...
