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AfriTAP Webinar Exposes the Growing Threat of Biodigital Technologies to Africa’s Food Sovereignty
Webinar link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAN3cYNMNmY On 11th July 2025, the African Technology Assessment Platform (AfriTAP), in collaboration Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration (ETC Group) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), held...
African Leadership Rejects Solar Geoengineering at AMCEN20
18 July, 2025 Nairobi, Kenya As the 20th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN20) comes to an end, climate justice groups and movements are celebrating African governments continued leadership in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering...
Publication: The Politics of Technology
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 this...
Handbook: Autonomy in the Face of Agtech
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 lives,...
ANIMATION Big Brother is Coming to the Farm: The digital takeover of food
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...
Africa is not a laboratory: Civil Society denounces Degrees Global Forum
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,...
Map: Disruptive Technologies in Asia-Pacific
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Risks from digitalisation trends in the Asia-Pacific food system
Some of the world’s biggest corporations, including Bayer and ChemChina, are making deals with data giants such as Amazon and Alibaba to turn human behaviour and environmental knowledge into computer code. The ‘artificial intelligence’ they are creating by applying...
Robots, Drones and Sensors: Biodiversity boom or bust?
As we face species’ extinction resulting from destruction of natural habitats, unabated expansion of industrial agriculture, wanton use of chemical pesticides, and pollution aggravated by climate change, industry actors are pushing for digital technologies, hailing...
Technology Assessment: Towards People-led Governance of our Future
We are living in a time where new technologies are often presented as near magical solutions to all sorts of challenges. Politicians and the media often obscure the political dimension to technologies, leading to confusion (Box 1). Box 1: What is meant by “tech”?...
Pandemic Poker? Big Tech’s Gamble on the Molecular Manipulation of Life in the Asia-Pacific Region
Molecular-level manipulations of every element that makes up the living world are being sold to us as “nature-based solutions” that can provide cures for almost all our problems. However, the hype that surrounds these sets of approaches is fatally undermined by the...
What’s new with technologies in Africa? Newsletter #4
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...