It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.