{"id":32031,"date":"2023-04-11T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/?post_type=post_events&#038;p=32031"},"modified":"2023-04-11T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:01:23","slug":"irri-and-the-corporate-capture-of-food-and-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post_events","link":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/es\/calendar\/irri-and-the-corporate-capture-of-food-and-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"IRRI and the Corporate capture of Food and Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSGRNAsia%2Fvideos%2F1403530763753425%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"591\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u\" dir=\"auto\">Amid worsening global economic, food, and climate crises, about 70 to 80 percent of the world\u2019s food is being produced by small and resource-poor farmers yet they only occupy 12 percent of the total arable land. On the other hand, only five agrochemical corporations namely Syngenta, Bayer, CropScience, BASFA, and Corteva dominate the global agriculture market today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spearheading the dominant yet failing industrialized food and agriculture that we know today, these five agrochemical corporations would not be able to forward their corporate agenda without the aid of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). For 63 years, IRRI has been criminally legitimizing and masking these agrochemical corporations as the messiahs for food insecurity by being their research and development arms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When IRRI first operated in the Philippines during the 1960s under the Green Revolution, it only took IRRI half a decade to erase the 4000 local rice varieties of the country by replacing it with their \u201cmiracle rice\u201d. What followed was a wave of famine, new emergence of agricultural pests and diseases, and wide scale poisoning of not only the environment but also of Filipino farmers with the package of chemical inputs that came with their so-called miracle rice. Since then, Philippine agriculture will never be able to build its own national industry in rice, <a href=\"https:\/\/stopgoldenricenetwork.org\/campaigns\/campaign-archive-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not thanks to IRRI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With IRRI currently pushing the so-called \u201csilver bullet\u201d to malnutrition GM Golden Rice in the Philippines and Bangladesh with Syngenta as its patent holder and \u201cclimate-smart rice varieties\u201d with Bayer among others, IRRI has once again proven its role as one of the harbinger of famine and farmers\u2019 demise in the world while also being the guarantors of profit for the wealthiest agrochemical corporations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stop Golden Rice Network, in partnership with <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv xzsf02u x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MASIPAGFarmers\/?__tn__=kK*F\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\">Masipag<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv xzsf02u x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GRAIN.org?__tn__=-]K*F\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\">GRAIN<\/span><\/a>, and <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv xzsf02u x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/navdanyainternational?__tn__=-]K*F\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\">Navdanya International<\/span><\/a> invites everyone at IRRI and the Corporate Capture of Food and Agriculture: A conversation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Join the conversation on April 4, 1:00 PM Philippine time, 12:00 PM Indonesian time, and 10:30 AM India time @StopGoldenRice Network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CqmqggVBrPo\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#ShutdownIRRI<br \/>\n#NoToGoldenRice<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ez8lblH_Xcg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid worsening global economic, food, and climate crises, about 70 to 80 percent of the world\u2019s food is being produced by small and resource-poor farmers yet they only occupy 12 percent of the total arable land. 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