Big Agriculture and Climate Change with GRAIN's Kartini Samon - Jakarta

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Climate change threatens more catastrophic flooding, fires and even food insecurity. In response, agricultural companies are promoting what they call climate safe agriculture. But are huge agriculture companies concerned for our collective food future, or are they leveraging the very real threat of climate change to promote more industrial monocultures, genetically engineered crops and the capture of markets from smaller, independent and often indigenous farmers?
In this episode of Breaking Green, we will talk to Kartini Samone, a GRAIN activist based in Jakarta.
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Chapters

1. Breaking Green Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Episode Introduction (00:00:29)

3. Introduction of Kartini Samone (00:01:22)

4. Kartini's Motivation (00:02:10)

5. What is Big AG? (00:04:09)

6. Governments Policy and Seed Patenting (00:08:16)

7. Farmer Protests in India (00:13:05)

8. Break with Theresa Church (00:16:30)

9. Alibaba and Amazon (00:17:35)

10. "Climate Safe Agriculture" (00:21:26)

11. Small and Indigenous Farmers as Alternative to big AG (00:28:38)

12. Big Ag and the Land Grab (00:32:24)

13. Biofuels (00:38:15)

14. Oil Palm and Deforestation (00:40:21)

15. Rebranding of failed strategies (00:41:39)

16. Breaking Green Outro (00:43:06)