Timothy A. Wise
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Cambridge, MA, United States
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Mexico Calls U.S. Bluff on Science of GMO Corn Restrictions
Mexico continues to defend GMO corn restrictions, emphasizing that the biosecurity of the country is of the utmost importance. → Read More
Science, Precaution, and Mexico’s GMO Corn Restrictions
U.S. efforts to bully Mexico over its announced restrictions on imports of genetically-modified corn have intensified. → Read More
No basis for U.S. to dispute Mexico's GM corn import ban
A high-level delegation from the Mexican government is in Washington today to discuss a series of bilateral trade issues, one of them being U.S. government and biotech industry claims that Mexico's intention to restrict imports of genetically modified corn in 2024 violates the new Agricultural Biotechnology provisions in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that replaced NAFTA in 2020. → Read More
AGRA Retreats from its Own 'Green Revolution' –
The rebranding is likely an attempt to distance AGRA from the growing evidence that Africa’s Green Revolution is failing, Tim Wise argues. → Read More
African Community Leaders Tell Congress: Stop Funding African Green Revolution –
African community leaders are calling on Congress to end their financial support for the billion-dollar effort. → Read More
Mexico’s Highest Court Rejects Appeal of GM Corn Ban
Mexico's highest court recently refused to overturn a precautionary injunction restricting the cultivation of genetically modified corn in the country. → Read More
Monsanto challenges Mexico glyphosate ban: IATP defends Mexico's right to regulate in the public interest
Since the Mexican government published its much-awaited presidential decree on New Year's Eve to restrict the use of the herbicide glyphosate and genetically modified corn, IATP has actively worked to defend the government against threats from U.S. agribusiness using the revised North American Free Trade Agreement, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). → Read More
AGRA Update: Withheld internal documents reveal no progress for Africa’s farmers
Internal evaluations carried out by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), recently obtained by the U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) campaign through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, show no new evidence that AGRA is making progress improving yields, incomes and food security for African farmers. → Read More
Selling the Past as Innovation in Africa
The future of sustainable farming lies in agroecological approaches, informed by collaborations between farmers and scientists. → Read More
Does Kenya Need GMO Cassava? Ask the World Food Prize-winner Who Saved Africa’s Cassava –
Hans Herren, who won the 1995 World Food Prize for biological pest control, argues that Africa still does not need genetically modified cassava. → Read More
Africa at the crossroads: Time to abandon failing Green Revolution
Originally published by Inter Press Service (IPSNews). → Read More
“Replacing hunger with malnutrition": Former UN official calls out failing African Green Revolution
It’s been nearly fifty years since Frances Moore Lappé reminded us in her seminal work, “Diet for a Small Planet,” that hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food, it is caused by a scarcity of power. Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel Prize more than twenty years ago for showing that famine was rarely caused by a lack of food. → Read More
Africa’s Farmers: Key to Solving Malnutrition –
Africa is projected to overtake South Asia by 2030 as the region with the greatest number of hungry people. Supporting sound farming practices would help feed communities. → Read More
Failing Africa’s farmers: New report shows Africa’s Green Revolution is “failing on its own terms”
Fourteen years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the goal of bringing Africa its own Green Revolution in agricultural productivity. → Read More
Opinion | Agroecology as Innovation
Calling agroecology a backward-looking, do-nothing approach to traditional ag is a defensive response to the failures of Green Revolution practices. → Read More
UN Backs Seed Sovereignty in Landmark Peasants’ Rights Declaration
On December 17, the UN General Assembly approved the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas. → Read More
Seeds of Resistance, Harvests of Hope: Farmers Halt a Land Grab in Mozambique –
Farmers in Xai-Xai, Mozambique resisted a Chinese land grab and are petitioning the local government for land to improve their lives and the community. → Read More
López Obrador’s Win in Mexico Brings Hope for Farmers
A mobilized farmers movement in rural Mexico will demand key actions to revitalize agricultural production and trade from newly elected López Obrador. → Read More
Making Rural Mexico Great Again: Leading Candidate Endorses Farmers’ Reform Program –
Emerging front-runner in the Mexican presidential election is campaigning on a platform of rural revitalization that speaks to farmers and challenges NAFTA → Read More
Keep Your Eyes on the Price: WTO Remains Blind to Agricultural Dumping –
Many farm leaders feel the WTO is not fulfilling its mandate to provide a fair, rules-based, and transparent international trade system. → Read More