“For all the rhetoric of blockchain being a stateless technology, we have one government – that of the United States – actively pouring money into Tech Camps and other initiatives, all in order to turn the blockchain into the arch-solution to developmental problems. “
In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world’s food in its report Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland. The report Small-scale Farmers and Peasants Still Feed the World (ETC Group, 2022) confirmed this. Small farmers produce up to 80% of…
Massive food producers hold too much power – and the regulators scarcely understand what is happening. Sound familiar? For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up to 2008. While financial…
The report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows how capitalism undergirds the climate crisis. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a new climate report which updates and combines the findings from all past reports in the IPCC’s sixth assessment. The synthesis report urges immediate action to curb global…
Entretien avec Dominique Vidal Dans l’introduction du livre que vous avez dirigé, Les Nationalistes à l’assaut de l’Europe1, vous évoquez trois notions : l’extrême droite, le nationalisme et le populisme. Comment les distinguez-vous ? D. V. : Il est en effet important de préciser ces concepts souvent confondus. L’extrême droite, comme son nom l’indique, se situe à une…...
Farmers say oil giant’s tree-planting scheme has barred them from their fields and threatens livelihoods This spring, when Pulchérie Amboula went to plant crops on her land, she was chased away by men in trucks. “As soon as they see the tractor, there is a Hilux vehicle which starts following behind,” she says. “We no…
A juste titre, les enfants s’étonnent d’une contradiction évidente dans les sociétés capitalistes : des magasins remplis de nourriture mais des gens affamés dans les rues C’est une question d’une importance énorme qui se dissipe dans le brouillard de l’ambivalence morale. En effet, diverses explications sont utilisées pour embrouiller les jeunes esprits. La théorie la plus…
