conference Archive

  • Sue Kedgley

    NGOs Cry Foul at FAO Food Conference - by Sue Kedgley



    I’ve just come from the NGO’s presentation of their fiery declaration, which is in stark contrast to the bland ‘declaration’ of the high level conference which is bogged down in negotiations and still hasn’t been agreed to. The Minister Jim Anderton was pleased with New Zealand’s participation in the conference and felt we ‘waved the [...] read more
    June 9, 2008 10:55 am - 12 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    GE Rears Its Head as Saviour of World Food Emergency - by Sue Kedgley



    It was to be expected, but still a shock, to find Bill Gates and the Rockefeller foundation at the conference (they weren’t excluded like the NGOs) launching a new bold sounding “Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. In partnership with various UN agencies, aimed at ‘lifting millions out of poverty and hunger by increasing [...] read more
    June 8, 2008 2:13 pm - 29 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    Food conference highjacked by free trade corporates - by Sue Kedgley



    [Frog: This is the first of three posts sent to me from Sue Kedgley, who is attending the World Food Conference in Rome] As usual in these international conferences, clarity and truth came from civil society and the NGO’s than from the set piece speeches of most world leaders. NGO’s were treated appallingly at the [...] read more
    June 7, 2008 3:53 pm - 27 Comments
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    500 Scientists with Documented Doubts – about the Heartland Institute? - by frog



    DeSmogBlog has published a rapidly growing list of outraged climate scientists – all of whom were listed on the Heartland Institute‘s “500 Scientists with Documented Doubts” statement after the climate change deniers conference in New York last March. Here are just three of the quotes on offer: I am horrified to find my name on [...] read more
    May 2, 2008 9:00 am - 9 Comments
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    NZ Inc. continues to invest in cluster bombs - by frog



    This is old news but deserves a fresh look given that NZ will host an international conference to ban them next week in Wellington! “It is blatant hypocrisy for the New Zealand Government on the one hand to take dividends from the manufacture of cluster bombs while on the other hand to call for the [...] read more
    February 14, 2008 3:32 pm - 14 Comments