Let’s think about technology and its deep influences from the point of view of social justice. We are used to challenging new technologies one by one, as they hit our communities and social fabrics (think about GMO’s, digital agriculture, e-communication…). In...
How to Challenge Industry Narratives The way we talk about new technology in agriculture has a huge impact on the reality of farming communities and food systems. What is presented as modern improvements often turns out to have devastating impacts on people’s...
This animated video tells the real story of the silent earthquake currently fracturing our food systems. Huge corporations are driving massive changes in agriculture, food processing and retail all over the world. Giant finance and big tech companies are now joining...
African civil society organizations are outraged by the Degrees Global Forum being hosted in South Africa next week, calling it an act of climate colonialism effort to co-opt the African climate movement, academics, and youth that will threaten the sovereignty,...
An AfriTAP newsletter, February 2024 AfriTAP presents our fourth newsletter. This newsletter highlights developments in new technologies in Africa, in the areas of geoengineering, agriculture, genetic technologies and digital technologies. We hope you find this...
(Scroll down to listen to audio clips from Hardi Yakubu, movement coordinator, Africans Rising and Bhekumuzi Dean Bhebhe, co-facilitator of Don’t gas Africa Movement.) As flood waters enveloped central Greece, fires continued to rage in North America, and the earth...
