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AEGOPOLIS

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Agri-Business�What is the Story? And how do you tell it?

  • The story:
  • Concentration of control over the agri-business industries.
  • Four companies: more than 50% of all commercial seeds.
  • Why does that matter?
  • Genetic uniformity.
  • Reliance on chemical pesticides, produced by the same same companies.

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Seed Industry 1996-2018: Philip Howard, University of Michigan

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Fig 3. Crop species diversity as effective number of species in 1978, 1987, 1997 and 2012 on a county level basis for the contiguous US.

Aguilar J, Gramig GG, Hendrickson JR, Archer DW, Forcella F, et al. (2015) Crop Species Diversity Changes in the United States: 1978–2012. PLOS ONE 10(8): e0136580. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136580

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136580

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Compare PR to….

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  • FARMER PUBLICATIONS

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  • SCIENCE STUDIES (on Yields)

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  • CIVIL SOCIETY…

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From SUCCESSFUL FARMING Magazine (free)

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Which state has the worst corn crop condition? | September 12, 2023

While drought conditions have eased slightly, below average precipitation continues to

leave 38% of the corn crop in this state in poor/very poor shape.

 

  SUCCESSFUL FARMING Magazine

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SUCCESSFUL FARMING (September ‘23 issue)

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Get to know your plant scientists…

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  • SCIENCE STUDIES:
  • Find them in your own region—universities, plant scientists,, botanists.

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ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY � IN AFRICA

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HOW TO TELL THE STORY….

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START SMALL AND GET BIGGER….

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FOOD CROPS-Centers of Origin

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AEGOPOLIS

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National Center for Environmental Information / NOAA

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AEGOPOLIS

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Resistant to….�

 

Barley Yellow Dwarf

Mosaic Virus

Wheat Rust

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Hessian Fruit Fly

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  • ….so the question,
  • and the journalism….

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          • Who is going to control those seeds???
          • and their cousins all over the world?

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FOOD CROPS-Centers of Origin