Slides of Katherine Zavala's presentation at the GMO Webinar for the Food Justice Learning Call series, organized by Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA), who are a member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. The full video of the Webinar can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BssDPJwhy4&feature=c4-overview&list=UU1x4rFAgzmRDeorUDly6zNg

1. Global Impact of GMOs
August 12, 2013

2. Outline
• Status of World Hunger
• Green Revolution and AGRA
• Cases:
1) South Africa
2) GM Corn in Mexico
• Solution: Agroecology

3. Status of World Hunger
• World produces enough food to feed 9 to 10 billion people
• Food Sovereignty:
• at least 75% of the 1,5 billion smallholders, family farmers and
indigenous people
• 350 million small farms
• 5,000 crop varieties
• 1,9 million peasant-bred plant varieties

4. Green Revolution and AGRA
• 1960s: Green Revolution (GR)– a promise to end hunger through miracle
seeds
• GR Strategy: focused on increased production / petrol-dependent farming
• 1999: AGRA – Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa
• Public/private partnerships
• Industrial campaign to spread GM crops
• Dismal results in Africa

5. South Africa

6. GM Corn in Mexico

7. Solution: Agroecology

8. Resources:
"The Scaling Up of Agroecology: spreading the hope for food sovereignty and resiliency – A contribution
to discussions at Rio+20 on issues at the interface of hunger, agriculture, environment, and social
justice" by Miguel Altieri. (May 2012)
Http://agroeco.org/socla/archivospdf/Rio20.pdf
Lessons from the Green Revolution by Peter Rosset (April 8th 2000) – posted on Food First blog
http://www.foodfirst.org/media/opeds/2000/4-greenrev.html
AGRA Fact Sheet – Food First by Tanya Kerssen (September 2009)
http://www.foodfirst.org/sites/www.foodfirst.org/files/pdf/AGRA%20Fact%20Sheet%209-
09%20by%20Tanya%20Kerssen.pdf
“Mexican small farmers stand up against Monsanto’s GM corn conquest” (February 18, 2013) –
Voxxi.com
http://www.voxxi.com/mexican-against-monsantos-gm-corn/