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Wed Oct 19 - Mangaliso Kubheka Speaks on South Africa's Landless People's Movement
Wednesday, October 19 - Mangaliso Kubheka Speaks on Empowering the Peoples' Agriculture: South Africa's Landless People's Movement. New College of California School of Law, 50 Fell Street (near Civic Center BART), San Francisco. For information on Mangaliso Kubheka's other Bay Area appearances, visit: http://www.foodfirst.org .
Wednesday, October 19, 7:00 pm
MANGALISO KUBHEKA,
National Organizer of the Landless People's Movement of South Africa,
will speak on:
Empowering the Peoples' Agriculture:
South Africa's Landless People's Movement
New College of California School of Law
50 Fell Street (near Civic Center BART), San Francisco
Open to the public. Sliding scale donations gratefully accepted.
For information on Mangaliso Kubheka's other Bay Area appearances, visit: http://www.foodfirst.org .
Mangaliso Kubheka, National Organizer of the Landless People's Movement of South Africa, organizes to create food systems that meet human needs. Mr. Kubheka joins farmers around the world struggling for access to land, and demanding that the WTO (World Trade Organization) cease negotiations on agriculture. Food First and Via Campesina are proud to bring Mangaliso Kubheka to the United States. This event is sponsored by Food First, New College of California School of Law, New College Center for Education & Social Action, and Global Exchange.
Amandla! With his deep baritone shouts of power! in Zulu, Kubekha and millions of other South African activists successfully ended the apartheid regime and brought the African National Congress to power in 1994. "We must remind the government what they stand for, since we put them where they are," Kubekha states. One of the policies of the former apartheid regime was to force Black South Africans to leave their land and property to relocate to other parts of the country. South Africa's post-apartheid government committed to redistributing land to Black African farmers, and the Landless People's Movement of South Africa engages in creative nonviolent organizing to pressure the government to meet these commitments.
South Africa's Landless Peoples Movement is a member of Via Campesina, a global network of small-scale farmers which develops and promotes the concept of Food Sovereignty. Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture, including the right to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade.
For event information, contact Kirsten Schwind at Food First, 510-654-4400 x 227.
MANGALISO KUBHEKA,
National Organizer of the Landless People's Movement of South Africa,
will speak on:
Empowering the Peoples' Agriculture:
South Africa's Landless People's Movement
New College of California School of Law
50 Fell Street (near Civic Center BART), San Francisco
Open to the public. Sliding scale donations gratefully accepted.
For information on Mangaliso Kubheka's other Bay Area appearances, visit: http://www.foodfirst.org .
Mangaliso Kubheka, National Organizer of the Landless People's Movement of South Africa, organizes to create food systems that meet human needs. Mr. Kubheka joins farmers around the world struggling for access to land, and demanding that the WTO (World Trade Organization) cease negotiations on agriculture. Food First and Via Campesina are proud to bring Mangaliso Kubheka to the United States. This event is sponsored by Food First, New College of California School of Law, New College Center for Education & Social Action, and Global Exchange.
Amandla! With his deep baritone shouts of power! in Zulu, Kubekha and millions of other South African activists successfully ended the apartheid regime and brought the African National Congress to power in 1994. "We must remind the government what they stand for, since we put them where they are," Kubekha states. One of the policies of the former apartheid regime was to force Black South Africans to leave their land and property to relocate to other parts of the country. South Africa's post-apartheid government committed to redistributing land to Black African farmers, and the Landless People's Movement of South Africa engages in creative nonviolent organizing to pressure the government to meet these commitments.
South Africa's Landless Peoples Movement is a member of Via Campesina, a global network of small-scale farmers which develops and promotes the concept of Food Sovereignty. Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture, including the right to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade.
For event information, contact Kirsten Schwind at Food First, 510-654-4400 x 227.
For more information:
http://www.foodfirst.org
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Am curious about the linx between lack of land and malnutrition. Looking back in time (pre-colonialism) most people in Africa lived and farmed in the vicinity of their village. Many different crop methods were used, though most were encouraging crop diversity. An example is in the many variety of yams and root crops that grew well in the dry climate..
"Does GM technology meet the needs of poor farmers?
The needs of poor farmers around the world are almost completely neglected by the biotechnology industry, as they do not constitute a commercial market. The crops they grow – such as teff, millet, yam, and cassava –fulfil a vital role in food security. They are valued culturally, adapted to harsh environments, nutritious and genetically diverse.
Biotech companies invest research and development (R&D) money into a few crops ofhigh commercial value. These tend to be grown as monocrops and to be internationally traded. Where R&D is channelled into crops grown indeveloping countries, the focus is on those with commercial potential.R&D in Africa focuses on export crops such as cut flowers, fruit and vegetables, cotton and tobacco."
http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/PDF/1263.pdf
Modern day land use is geared towards export plantation crops (coffee, cotton, etc.) that depend heavily on pesticides, fertilizers and irrigation. Not to mention the labor of people who are no longer able to grow their own crop diversity for their personal families nutritional requirements. What people get for food is usually nutritionally devoid monoculture in the form of subsidy crops like wheat, blanched rice and refined flours. Than we see the rise in sickness from malnutrition, often the same symptoms as AIDS (chronic weight loss, flu, etc.)..
If African people were returned their land to grow their indigenous root crops and other diverse crops with nutrients and eco-adaptibility, is it possible that the illness and death from malnutrition would decrease?
Maybe someone could ask this question?
thanks,
luna moth
"Does GM technology meet the needs of poor farmers?
The needs of poor farmers around the world are almost completely neglected by the biotechnology industry, as they do not constitute a commercial market. The crops they grow – such as teff, millet, yam, and cassava –fulfil a vital role in food security. They are valued culturally, adapted to harsh environments, nutritious and genetically diverse.
Biotech companies invest research and development (R&D) money into a few crops ofhigh commercial value. These tend to be grown as monocrops and to be internationally traded. Where R&D is channelled into crops grown indeveloping countries, the focus is on those with commercial potential.R&D in Africa focuses on export crops such as cut flowers, fruit and vegetables, cotton and tobacco."
http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/PDF/1263.pdf
Modern day land use is geared towards export plantation crops (coffee, cotton, etc.) that depend heavily on pesticides, fertilizers and irrigation. Not to mention the labor of people who are no longer able to grow their own crop diversity for their personal families nutritional requirements. What people get for food is usually nutritionally devoid monoculture in the form of subsidy crops like wheat, blanched rice and refined flours. Than we see the rise in sickness from malnutrition, often the same symptoms as AIDS (chronic weight loss, flu, etc.)..
If African people were returned their land to grow their indigenous root crops and other diverse crops with nutrients and eco-adaptibility, is it possible that the illness and death from malnutrition would decrease?
Maybe someone could ask this question?
thanks,
luna moth
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