March Against Syngenta

Many citizens from Basel in Switzerland were disgusted when they heard that their city canton's government had selected Syngenta as the main sponsor of Basel's appearance at the 2015 World Fair in Milan. The multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation stands for toxic pesticides, genetically engineered seeds, patents on plants and industrial agriculture, a main culprit of global warming. Soon after the announcement, NGO alliance MultiWatch hosted a two-day conference; it also organized Basel's first 'March against Monsanto and Syngenta'. This book is a compilation of the team's findings after one year of watching Syngenta, and also includes contributions by Vandana Shiva and other guest authors supporting the campaigners. The bottom line is that there is no room for this multinational corporation in sustainable and ecological agriculture.

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"Prologue to March Against Syngenta Miguel A. Altieri Editors' Introduction Translator's Comment Postscript, 6 February 2016: ChemChina's offer and the latest round in Global Agropoly Part One: Syngenta on the World Stage The murder of MST Activist Keno Marianne Spiller Syngenta trial plots on Kaua'i - anything but Paradise In the Belly of the Chemical Beast: Hawaiian Activists Confront Syngenta on Its Home Turf Mike Ludwig Syngenta workers in Pakistan - a ten-year struggle In Karachi with Imran Ali Markus Spörndli Syngenta in India: High burdens of debt and poisonings Deepak Kumar Syngenta's Latin American networks Elizabeth Bravo Paraguay: The coup benefits big agribusiness Yvonne Zimmermann Big Agribusiness targets Africa Silva Lieberherr 'Golden Rice' - a staple food privatised by big agribusiness Paul Scherer Syngenta and the great Bee Decline Yves Zenger Syngenta's Toxic Legacy Martin Forter Keeping an eye on Syngenta François Meienberg Feed the world - but how? Florianne Koechlin First Conclusions Part Two: In the limelight, and behind the scenes Syngenta, a multinational corporation Syngenta's genesis Agribusiness and warfare Syngenta and capitalist agriculture Syngenta, intellectual property (IP) and accumulation by expropriation Monopolisation and Syngenta's global strategy World trade: WTO to TTIP Syngenta's shareholders Basel: a 'chemical city' and its[...]"