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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...
The Africa Climate Summit: Carbon Credits and Dangerous New Technologies in Africa
(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...
What’s new with technologies in Africa? Newsletter #3
An AfriTAP newsletter, February 2023 AfriTAP presents our third 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 useful....
Statement on the Dakar 2 Summit : “Climate smart agriculture” will worsen the climate crisis
We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our deep concern at the aims and assumptions that appear to underlie the 2nd Dakar Summit on Agriculture and Agribusiness (Dakar II), to be held from January 25 to 27, 2023 in Senegal. The stated aim of the summit,...
There is no Planet B: Earth Systems Manipulation is not an option
As the world faces the multiple challenges of climate, biodiversity and environmental crises, dangerous and unproven technological approaches are being proffered as quick fixes. Instead of supporting serious and often politically painful solutions,...
What’s new with technologies in Africa? Newsletter #2
An AfriTAP newsletter, June 2022 AfriTAP presents our second newsletter! This newsletter highlights developments in new technologies in Africa, focusing on climate and geoengineering, agriculture and food, genetic technologies and digital technologies. It also...