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RANT would like to meet Volunteers in the Tampa area who are interested in the environment, joining and campaigning with us in our fight against American Oil addiction, the funding of dirty coal, the destructive march of the U.S. Agribusiness throughout the rainforest and more!
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Agribusiness threatens biodiversity and seed diversity
In the last 30 years, there has been a rapid decline in agricultural-seed genetic diversity, largely motivated by an increasing monopoly and privatization in the global seed market. The loss of genetic seed diversity and access to seeds has the most severe impact on the world’s small farmers and Indigenous communities. The decline in agricultural genetic diversity and crop diversity has direct social, cultural and economic effects. In many areas where local varieties have been displaced by newly introduced crops, people have stopped consuming a healthy and diverse diet.
Agrofuels—the newest agribusiness threat to food sovereignty
Agribusiness companies are now behind the great rush to promote crop-based fuels as a supposed “green energy†and a way out of our climate crisis. But don’t be biofooled! Agrofuels pose a huge threat to global food sovereignty, forcing fuel crops to compete with food crops. In the race to produce agrofuels, land that was once used to grow food is now being used to grow crops that will go into the gas tanks of the world’s privileged elite rather than the stomachs of the hungry. Small-scale, family farmers are being pushed off their land to make way for fuel crops. These farmers cannot compete against the likes of agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge or Cargill—companies that are investing millions of dollars in the expansion of soy, palm oil, sugar cane and corn for fuel.
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