Soja lezing CEDLA 11 januari
Nina - 07.01.2008 15:08
11 January 2008, 15:30, CEDLA:
Keizersgracht 395-397, 1016 EK AMSTERDAM - NL
Lezing over de huidige situatie in Paraguay met betrekking tot de soja-expansie, het verzet daartegen, en het verband met de biobrandstof-push alhier.
Soy production in the Southern Cone: the socio-economic and environment
impact
Javiera Rulli (BaseIS Paraguay)
Referent: Barbara Hogenboom (CEDLA)
In the view of many researchers and activists in the global South and
North, the model of intensive agriculture based on soy monocultures,
production of fodder in one continent and agro industry in another, is
extremely problematic. This model results in an emptying of the
countryside, contamination of the environment and destruction of
landscape and native cultures. According to Javiera Rulli, a biologist working at BaseIS Paraguay, the expansion of agribusiness leads to
criminalization of social struggle and violence against indigenous, peasants and the poor in the cities. She will talk about the current tendencies and problems together with An Maeyens (soy campaigner for ASEED Europe) and Nina Holland (campaigner on agrofuels for CEO). To give an impression of soy production and its effects, some parts of a documentary about San Pedro (Paraguay) will be shown.
Javiera Rulli will present the outcomes of two recent studies. "Refugees
of the Agro-export model" is the result from an extensive field research
brought about in 2006 in Paraguayan campesino communities surrounded
by GM soy monocultures. This investigation by a multidisciplinary and
international group of researchers (lead by sociologist Tomás Palau)
analyses the dynamic of impoverishment and degeneration of the ways of
life of rural households, causing rural expulsion and migration to
cities. "United Soya Republics" is a collection of contributions by Latin
American activists and researchers that depicts the current status of the “Global soy model” that dominates the Southern Cone. The volume shows that soy is not just a crop, but a system that has geopolitical value and
sustends an economical globalization of agriculture in function of corporate interests.
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