African expert Fadhel Kaboub believes that there is a very simple straightforward explanation why African countries like Nigeria still struggle with poverty and malnutrition. He quite correctly asserts that they were placed in a structural trap by western colonialism
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But small-scale farmers and peasant movements have the solution – agroecology – farming that centres farmers and workers’ rights and preserves biodiversity.

Read the article to find out how peasant agroecology could fix our food systems for good: waronwant.org/news-analysi...

...while the seeds are engineered to grow once then die – forcing farmers to keep buying seed and pesticide packages every year, trapping them in a cycle of dependency.

🥦Our industrialised food system is driving the climate crisis by emitting a third of global greenhouse gases – & this is set to increase.

On #InternationalDayAgainstPesticides read our🆕article to find out how investment in fossil-fuel-based pesticides affects us all:
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This is an excellent piece by Jonathan Sumption, who is pro legalising assisted dying but is far too honest to trumpet it as a great liberal and progressive social reform, as I’ve alarmingly heard some supporters describe it as. Wish all supporters of reform shared his honesty.

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