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What does data justice mean for African small-holder farmers?
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A critical analysis of biodigital technologies and their expanding role in food and agriculture. Central to the authors' argument is the question of who ultimately stands to benefit from this so-called “fourth agricultural revolution."</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img alt="Participants engaging in the “Narratives of Power Building” session, exploring perceptions of technological power and progress in relation to Africa’s food systems" height="360" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/img_1942.jpg?itok=3ERYqvpt" title="Participants engaging in the “Narratives of Power Building” session, exploring perceptions of technological power and progress in relation to Africa’s food systems" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This article was written by <em>Matthew Canfield, Sabrina Masinjila, Barbara Ntambirweki, and was originally published by <a href="https://agroecologynow.net/what-does-data-justice-mean-for-african-small-holder-farmers-towards-envisioning-a-human-rights-based-approach-in-africa/">Agroecology Now</a>.</em><em> Central to the authors' argument is the question of who ultimately stands to benefit from this so-called “fourth agricultural revolution.” </em><em>They contend, first and foremost, that data justice must be grounded in the lived experiences and livelihoods of food producers. They also emphasize that data justice for African farmers cannot be confined to the individual-rights frameworks that dominate Eurocentric privacy debates. </em><em>Instead, they call for regenerative, non-extractive technological ap
Commons to Code: How Platforms Rewire Agriculture and Reshape Power
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">This case study examines the rise of digitised, data-dependent agriculture, focusing on Bayer's Climate FieldView as a prime example of how agribusiness and technology companies are reshaping food systems</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover-page field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/files/commons_to_code_how_platforms_rewire_agriculture_and_reshape_power_3-1-cover.jpg"><img height="480" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/commons_to_code_how_platforms_rewire_agriculture_and_reshape_power_3-1-cover.jpg?itok=SeKUgPc-" width="339" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This study maps the flow of agricultural data, from data generation on farms to storage, processing and monetisation, showing how each stage is integrated into infrastructures and contractual regimes controlled by companies. Through this flow, farmers' practices, environments and knowledge are translated into private data flows, reinforcing platform lock-in, algorithmic governance and financialisation.</p> <p><em>This case study is part of a research collaboration between ETC Group and IT for Change, supported by the Center for Global Digital Justice: </em><a href="https://itforchange.net/centering-equity-and-justice-global-data-governance">https://itforchange.net/centering-equity-and-justice-global-data-governance</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><small><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;" xml:lang="ES">Illustration by Garth Laidlaw for ETC's <a href="https://www.etcgroup.org/content/jac
The Kandy Declaration
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A common political compass for the movements of the world</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img height="480" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/kandy_image_signal-2025-11-10-141125_002.jpeg?itok=GJkOx-ap" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div>The Kandy Declaration, a collective roadmap for systemic transformation from the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, is out now!</div> <div> </div> <div>Read the full declaration at the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum website in <a href="https://nyeleniglobalforum.org/2025/11/10/the-kandy-declaration-a-collective-roadmap-for-systemic-transformation/">EN, ES, FR, PT and AR</a></div> <div> </div> <div>More than a statement, the Declaration is the fruit of an unprecedented collective process: shaped through years of local and regional assemblies, and translated into 18 languages during the Forum to ensure that every voice could be heard and every word shared in equality.</div> <div> </div> <div>It stands as a common political compass for the movements of the world – guiding struggles for food sovereignty, health for all, social and solidarity economy, climate and gender justice, and peoples’ rights. It denounces the systems of capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism that drive hunger, war, and ecological collapse, while affirming the power of peoples to build economies of care, solidarity, and self-determination.</div> <div> </div> <div>Read the full declaration in <a href="https://nyeleniglobalforum.org/2025/11/10/the-kandy-declaration-a-collective-roadmap-for-systemic-transformation/">EN, ES, FR, PT and AR</a></d
Seafields’ faulty promises in the Caribbean (summary)
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Our oceans are not a testing ground for profit-driven experiments or carbon-market gambling!</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img height="334" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/summary_seafields_image_1.jpg?itok=hgHv5b9E" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p> <p><em>(Texto em português abaixo)</em></p> <p>FULL REPORT COMING SOON: </p> <p><a href="http://www.etcgroup.org/content/farming-ocean-carbon-market-profit">www.etcgroup.org/content/farming-ocean-carbon-market-profit</a></p> <p>Seafields, a UK based start-up company, plans to scale up seaweed production in the Caribbean Sea, primarily to generate carbon credits in the carbon market. It is growing the invasive Sargassum seaweed species, and has plans to expand beyond the Caribbean, establishing a ‘giga-farm’ in the south Atlantic gyre covering ~0.7 million km² – an area roughly the size of Zambia.</p> <p>Seafields aims to use two controversial ‘carbon removal’ technologies – sinking seaweed in the deep ocean and ‘artificial upwelling’ (AU) which pumps cool deep ocean water to the surface. Both are examples of controversial and risky marine geoengineering technologies, which aim to alter the Earth’s oceans in the name of climate mitigation. Both are false solutions, remaining theoretical and unproven as carbon sequestration methods.</p> <p>Because of the deleterious effects these two technologies can have on the ocean, they are currently monitored under The London Convention and London Protocol (LC/LP), which oversee activities that could pollute the marine environment. Neve
Organizations denounce Carbon Markets ahead of COP30
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">55 movements and organizations from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries published a powerful MANIFESTO rejecting carbon markets and defending territories against an avalanche of projects that are causing damage throughout the region</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img height="360" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/image-manifesto_vs_carbon_mkts.jpeg?itok=SSyKsgu1" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">On October 29, 55 movements and organizations from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries published a powerful MANIFESTO rejecting carbon markets and defending territories against an avalanche of projects that are causing damage throughout the region. This manifesto challenges COP30 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will begin in the first week of November with high-level meetings.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">The groups – mainly representing indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, peasant communities and fisherfolk – say carbon markets are a false solution to climate change that enable corporations to avoid necessary emission cuts by using the territories of the Global South to generate carbon credits. They point to more than 80 examples of land deals to produce carbon credits with tree plantations, cattle ranches and agricultural crops, covering more than two million hectares in Latin America and the Caribbean, that are already fuelling land grabbing and the destruction of local food systems.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">The statement
Optimism is back! 3rd Nyeleni Global Forum update
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Creating a new pathway to global systemic transformation from the ground up</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img height="461" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/vero_nyeleni_signal-2025-09-10-174547.jpg?itok=B6zlnq3q" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>As the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka draws to a close, it’s exciting to reflect on the fact that this country - inhabited and loved by its people from coast to coast, and home to some of the world’s most biodiverse, verdant and abundant forests, rivers and wetlands - is also poised to become the birthplace of a new global meta-movement of social movements committed to bringing health and vitality back to the planet’s communities, countries and climate.</p> <p>Up in Kandy, in the mountains of central Sri Lanka, we are more than 700 delegates from over 100 countries – including peasants, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk, pastoralists, workers, feminist movements, environmentalists, migrants, urban food insecure, consumer groups, researchers, health activists and artists. We are collectively building a global platform of resistance and solidarity, grounded in the principles of food sovereignty, grassroots feminism, agroecology, social, gender and climate justice, peoples’ and energy sovereignty, and economic democracy.</p> <p>ETC Group is proud to be supporting the Nyéléni process: our programme and communications staff are all present in Sri Lanka, participating in different capacities, including as regional delegates and staff. </p> <p>We bring our niche ‘advance-warning approac
ETC Group reinvigorates its quest to track emerging technologies and scrutinise corporate concentration
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Following its 2025 AGM, ETC Group’s Board and Staff met for four days in Madrid, in early August, to build a new plan of action, laser-focused on challenging corporate concentration and tech ‘broligarchy’ chauvinism</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img alt="ETC Group board and staff group photo, Plaza Mayor, Madrid" height="371" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/etc_group_madrid_v2_img_1393.jpg?itok=VPCwX2KA" title="ETC Group board and staff group photo, Plaza Mayor, Madrid" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>We see a gathering tsunami of emerging (and converging) corporate technologies being super-charged by increasingly rapid developments in digital/AI, bioengineering and geoengineering technologies. The new corporate constellation of a few men with vast personal wealth operating within the existing hegemonic capitalist financial system is also being used to influence key governmental policy-making spaces, sidelining democratic processes and excluding civil society.</p> <p dir="ltr">ETC Group’s role as a tech/corporate watchdog is needed more than ever, as is our contribution to civil society’s defence of just and ecological agri-food systems and the web of life. We are focused on challenging the false solutions and slick corporate narratives being used to extract profit. Together with our social movement allies we are reimagining other ways of thinking and being, based on peoples’ real solutions.</p> <p dir="ltr">Following our strategic and operational planning meeting in Madrid, we are renewed and reinvigorated. We are creatin
AfriTAP Webinar Exposes the Growing Threat of Biodigital Technologies to Africa’s Food Sovereignty
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AfriTAP, AFSA and ETC’s online webinar on “Understanding Biodigital Technologies: A Global Overview and Impact on Food Systems” was led by Jim Thomas of Scan the Horizon</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img height="252" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/etc_afritap_seafloor_colour.png?itok=c2QO51oa" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Webinar link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAN3cYNMNmY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAN3cYNMNmY</a></p> <p>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 an online webinar on “Understanding Biodigital Technologies: A Global Overview and Impact on Food Systems.” The session was led by Jim Thomas of Scan the Horizon, who unpacked how rapidly evolving biodigital technologies are reshaping food systems and what this means for Africa. </p> <p>Emerging issues from the discussion underscored the urgent threat posed by unregulated biodigital expansion, particularly in Africa where data protection laws remain weak and poorly enforced. Participants were brought to the fore on the looming dangers of “data colonialism”-a pattern not new to the continent. Just as land and resources were historically grabbed to serve external profit interests, now data, genetic resources, and even life itself are being captured and commodified by powerful corporations. Alarmingly, undersea cables are landing in Africa at the same coastal sites once used i
African Leadership Rejects Solar Geoengineering at AMCEN20
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">As the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment draws to a close in Nairobi, climate justice movements are celebrating the leadership of African governments in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img height="480" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/home_amcen_image.jpeg?itok=31FhjgQ7" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>18 July, 2025</p> <p>Nairobi, Kenya</p> <p>As the 20th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN20) <a href="https://www.unep.org/events/unep-event/twentieth-ordinary-session-african-ministerial-conference-environment-amcen-20">comes to an end</a>, climate justice groups and movements are celebrating African governments continued leadership in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies.</p> <p>These extreme, risky and illusory schemes are being pushed on the African continent and globally - but African Ministers sent a powerful message to the world at AMCEN20 that solar geoengineering has no place as a climate solution and must be rejected permanently. The decision on Africa’s Engagement in the 7th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) states: </p> <blockquote><p>“We reiterate our position that such technologies pose significant and uncertain environmental, ethical and geopolitical risks, and must not be considered as viable options within the multilateral environmental agenda.”</p> </blockquote> <p>AMCEN20 decisions highlighted the inherent risks Solar Geoengineering poses to the environment and peoples, and explicitly calls for “the e
Victory at AMCEN!
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">African countries unanimously reject Solar Radiation Management</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-main field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img height="360" src="https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/styles/large/public/files/img_8933.jpg?itok=-lsj2O-t" width="480" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>African ministers made history in Nairobi today, at the 20th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), when they agreed to a text forcefully rejecting SRM and calling for a solar geoengineering Non-Use Agreement.</p> <p>This is a huge win for Africa! The text was adopted without any challenge from African countries.</p> <p>ETC campaigner Barbara Ntambirweki was present throughout pushing hard for common sense and care for the planet and its peoples to prevail – we count this victory as a critical step towards addressing the climate change crisis without resorting to highly hazardous and untested technologies. </p> <p>More details to follow!</p> </div></div></div>
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