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16/12/2011
"African Agriculture has been ignored by UN Climate Change discussions!" bellowed the South African minister for Agriculture, Tina Joemat-Pettersen at the high-level launch of Climate Smart Agriculture during the Durban climate negotiations. "We need your ideas to over throw this dictatorship of Climate Change! No Agriculture, No Deal!"
Her words echoed those of South African president Jacob Zuma, whose own rhetoric forcefully pushing for a deal on Agriculture had raised eyebrows for ignoring UN etiquette that prefers its host countries to act as impartial facilitators.
08/12/2011
New Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) launches to African beats
It certainly wasn't an event typically seen during the fortnight of UN climate negotiations here in Durban. An audience singing joyfully along with women farmers, Southern African youth grinning as they performed traditional dances, and the whooping and ululations ringing around the room, would have been enough to make you remember this day as something rather special and different.
07/12/2011
PRESS RELEASE: The Gaia Foundation, The Green Belt Movement, EcoNexus
[COP17, Durban] At the UN Climate Change negotiations in Durban this week, the World Bank and developed countries are claiming that agriculture carbon offsets will bring money for African agriculture.
02/12/2011
Groups warn against Zuma's agriculture prize at COP17
Press release from Gaia Foundation, African Biodiversity Network (ABN), Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) & EcoNexus
Date: Friday 2 December 2011
South African president Jacob Zuma has declared his intention to have a decision on Agriculture at the UN COP17 climate negotiations in Durban; while the World Bank is promoting so-called "Climate Smart Agriculture" and carbon offsets as the future of African agriculture and climate solutions.
29/11/2011
Funds for Agriculture Adaptation More Urgently Needed
Press release from Gaia Foundation, African Biodiversity Network (ABN), Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and Action Aid International
(November 28, 2011) Over 100 civil society organizations from Africa and around the world sent a letter earlier this week to African negotiators attending the UN global climate talks in Durban, calling for them to reject efforts to place agricultural soils within a carbon market.
22/11/2011
To: African Agriculture and Environment Ministers
Date: November 22, 2011
Subject: Durban COP17, agriculture and soil carbon markets
10/11/2011
Rising food prices, land grabbing, biofuels, carbon offsets, mining… In recent years, many of us in the Gaia and African Biodiversity Network (ABN) family have felt as if the threats to communities and ecosystems are not only intensifying, but multiplying. Sometimes it feels like we are constantly racing to keep up, to analyse and challenge endless new threats, which seem to come from every direction.
26/10/2011
Navdanya International has compiled and edited a new Global Citizens' Report on the State of GMOs, with contributions from global civil society networks in 6 continents, including Gaia's partners the African Biodiversity Network.
11/07/2011
The idea of "geo-engineering" the planet as a solution to climate change is gaining increasing traction among Northern governments. Geo-engineering is based on the idea that instead of reducing carbon emissions, we can solve climate change by large-scale tinkering with the planet's climate.
02/06/2011
The UK's target of 5% biofuels in transport fuel really is having a disastrous impact on Africa, in spite of policy makers' wishful thinking.
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