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Seedling July 2010 (special 20th anniversary issue)

In  this GRAIN 20th anniversary issue: Editorial Twenty years of fighting for seeds and food sovereignty  Global agribusiness: two decades of plunder Haiti’s farmers call for a break with neoliberalism and Seeds

In  this GRAIN 20th anniversary issue: Editorial Twenty years of fighting for seeds and food sovereignty  Global agribusiness: two decades of plunder Haiti’s farmers call for a break with neoliberalism and Seeds

Seedling April 2010

Turning African farmland over to big business Land grabs threaten Anuak Pastoralism an untold tale of adaptation and survival Watershed cattle Confronting the FAO to stop GMOs .... and more!

Turning African farmland over to big business Land grabs threaten Anuak Pastoralism an untold tale of adaptation and survival Watershed cattle Confronting the FAO to stop GMOs .... and more!

Seedling January 2010

Unravelling the “miracle” of Malawi’s green revolution Africa's land and family farms - up for grabs? Agricultural workers still struggle for their rights What 'financialisation' means for food workers Indian farmers organise to stop Bt brinjal .... and more!

Unravelling the “miracle” of Malawi’s green revolution Africa's land and family farms - up for grabs? Agricultural workers still struggle for their rights What 'financialisation' means for food workers Indian farmers organise to stop Bt brinjal .... and more!

'SEEDLING IS NOT A FULL-GROWN PLANT!'

In January 1993, GRAIN staffers and Seedling co-editors Henk Hobbelink and Renée Vellvé sat down with Pat Mooney of RAFI to look back together over the first decade of Seedling. From a sporadic two-page telex written by Pat for 30 close collaborators in 1982, Seedling has become an internationally recognised platform for NGO networking on plant genetic resources and biotechnology. Since Pat was the first publisher of Seedling, before it was passed on to Henk in 1984, it was only appropriate for us to review together the history of the journal, the history of the issues it reflects, and the history of the NGO struggle it has served.

In January 1993, GRAIN staffers and Seedling co-editors Henk Hobbelink and Renée Vellvé sat down with Pat Mooney of RAFI to look back together over the first decade of Seedling. From a sporadic two-page telex written by Pat for 30 close collaborators in 1982, Seedling has become an internationally recognised platform for NGO networking on plant genetic resources and biotechnology. Since Pat was the first publisher of Seedling, before it was passed on to Henk in 1984, it was only appropriate for us to review together the history of the journal, the history of the issues it reflects, and the history of the NGO struggle it has served.

The soils of war (Seedling article version)

In recent decades humanitarian aid has regularly been made conditional on the adoption of neoliberal economic policies. Recently, however, there has been a troubling tendency in war-ridden countries to interweave this aid, classified as “reconstruction”, closely with the military machinery of the invading powers. Afghanistan and Iraq have been the testing grounds for this militarised aid. In both countries the distinction between the US’s civilian and military activities has been completely, and deliberately, blurred. (For a fuller version of this article, see GRAIN Briefing, “The soils of war – The real agenda behind agricultural reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq”, March 2009, http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=217)

In recent decades humanitarian aid has regularly been made conditional on the adoption of neoliberal economic policies. Recently, however, there has been a troubling tendency in war-ridden countries to interweave this aid, classified as “reconstruction”, closely with the military machinery of the invading powers. Afghanistan and Iraq have been the testing grounds for this militarised aid. In both countries the distinction between the US’s civilian and military activities has been completely, and deliberately, blurred. (For a fuller version of this article, see GRAIN Briefing, “The soils of war – The real agenda behind agricultural reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq”, March 2009, http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=217)