ETC Group podcasts
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago -ETC Group is a small, international, research and action collective committed to social and environmental justice, human rights and the defence of just and ecological agri-food systems and the web of life. We focus on understanding and challenging corporate-controlled techno-industrial systems and exposing the dangers of the technological manipulation of life, especially in relation to climate justice and food security. We uphold peasant and indigenous ways of life and knowledge systems; food sovereignty; people’s control of technology; and just economies and governance.
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Who Will control the Food System: episode 4
March 26, 2024 13:35 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBGrowing carbon is not like growing watermelons: the seductive trap of carbon farming and digital tech (To read the transcript go to: https://www.etcgroup.org/tags/podcast) Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back. --- In this fourth episode, Zahra Moloo t...
Who Will control the Food System: episode 3
March 26, 2024 13:34 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBDisruptive digital food and ag techs are invading indigenous territories in India. (To read the transcript go to: https://www.etcgroup.org/tags/podcast) Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back. --- In East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India, an Adi...
Who Will Control the Food System: episode 2
March 26, 2024 13:33 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBThe “Immaculate Conception of Data” – and why it’s a problem (To read the transcript go to: https://www.etcgroup.org/tags/podcast) Tune into the next episode in our latest podcast mini-series, Who Will Control the Food System, where we uncover just who's pulling the strings of industrial agriculture, dissect the latest corporate strategies, and take inspiration from the peoples and movements fighting back. In this second episode, Zahra Moloo talks to Kelly Bronson, a social scientist at t...
Who will control the food system? episode 1
March 26, 2024 13:29 - 42 minutes - 58 MBIndustrial agriculture is not so much jumping on the “Food Systems Transformation” band wagon as trying to steal it! (To read the transcript go to: https://www.etcgroup.org/tags/podcast) Don’t fall for the UN’s new Food Systems Coordination Hub hype about “Transforming Food Systems for Planetary Health”. The current corporate agenda, championed by this new “Hub” is firmly focused on hijacking the UN’s existing food systems spaces to force through yet another phase of Industrial Agriculture...
¿Quién controla lo que comemos? Episodio 1
March 26, 2024 11:31 - 27 minutes - 63.8 MBLos barones de la alimentación. Entrevista a Silvia Ribeiro En esta serie de podcast del Grupo ETC, hablaremos de quién controla lo que comemos, y cómo van cambiando las cosas en este sector. Comentaremos sobre las empresas que ganan cada vez más terreno en el mercado de semillas, maquinaria agrícola, distribución de comestibles. Cómo es que las compañías más grandes de tecnología, como Microsoft, Alfabet, Google y AliBaba están invadiendo el sector de producción de alimentos. Estos cambi...
¿Quién controla lo que comemos? Episodio 2
February 26, 2024 13:48 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBLa cadena agroalimentaria digital. Entrevista a Pepe Godoy En esta serie de podcast del Grupo ETC, hablaremos de quién controla lo que comemos, y cómo van cambiando las cosas en este sector. Comentaremos sobre las empresas que ganan cada vez más terreno en el mercado de semillas, maquinaria agrícola, distribución de comestibles. Cómo es que las compañías más grandes de tecnología, como Microsoft, Alfabet, Google y AliBaba están invadiendo el sector de producción de alimentos. Estos cambio...
COP15: an interview with Sabrina Masinjila
December 19, 2022 16:14 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MBIn this interview, Sabrina Masinjila, from the African Centre for Biodiversity, speaks to ETC Group about some key targets in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) being negotiated at COP15 in Montreal. She explains the importance of agroecology and agricultural diversity in Target 10 of the GBF, and why these are so important for biodiversity in the future.
COP15: An interview with Christine von Weizsäcker
December 08, 2022 19:23 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MBFind out what's happening at the Convention on Biological Diversity's COP 15 in Montreal, with this introduction to the COP by guest interviewee Christine von Weizsäcker. You can read the full transcript of the interview over at our website at: https://www.etcgroup.org/content/cop15-audio-introduction.
Is the UN Convention on Biodiversity losing the precautionary plot?
November 09, 2022 15:29 - 5 minutes - 2.52 MBThe push to get untried and untested corporate-backed bio- and digital technologies accepted as ‘nature-positive solutions’ is taking place in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as well as climate negotiations. The long-postponed global biodiversity summit (COP-15) of the Parties to the CBD, which was supposed to take place in Kunming in China in 2020, is now taking place in Montreal in December. In Montreal a high-profile ‘Global Biodiversity Framework’ will be launched to determ...
Life, the Pluriverse and Everything
November 19, 2021 13:09 - 21 minutes - 48.5 MBIn celebration of United Nations World Philosophy Day 2021, ETC Group presents its third and final podcast in the "Spanner in the System" series, focussing on the philosophical underpinnings of corporate visions for disruptive technology, together with Dr Saurabh Arora from the University of Sussex. This podcast is part of ETC Group’s new three-part mini-series about Disruptive Technologies, produced by ETC Group in the Asia-Pacific region in collaboration with Puma Podcasts. Supported by H...
Volcanic Disruption
October 29, 2021 13:55 - 23 minutes - 52.7 MBFind out what geoengineering is, why it's so dangerous, and why the idea of these largely non-existent technologies is being used as an alibi for the fossil fuel industry to continue extracting and polluting.
Banana-drama
October 18, 2021 15:13 - 21 minutes - 49.2 MBWhy not listen to our new podcast during your lunch break today? As we mark World Food Day (16 October), it’s a good time to pause and reflect on our food and where it comes from. Our first podcast, in our new mini-series on disruptive tech, produced in the Asia-Pacific region, does just that! Together with Neth Daño, we learn about issues surrounding new technologies and their impacts on some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and what we can do about them. We look at the g...
Jack y el Gigante de la Nube
July 02, 2021 14:24 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBEn esta historia, seguimos a un joven campesino llamado Jack mientras trepa una enredadera de datos que conduce al castillo de un gigante, donde descubre lo que sucede cuando conecta su granja a las brillantes aplicaciones y las deslumbrantes promesas de la agricultura de precisión.
Special episode: The story of Jack and the Cloud Giant
March 20, 2021 14:22 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBIn this special episode of the ETC Group podcast, we're sidestepping into the world of fairy stories to celebrate World Storytelling Day 2021, which focuses on 'New Beginnings'. 'Jack and the Cloud Giant' is a twist on an old European fairy tale. We follow a young peasant called Jack up a data-vine that leads into the Cloud Giant’s techno-castle, where he finds out what happens when he plugs his farm into the glittering apps and the dazzling promises of precision agriculture. We hope you enj...
#7: Geoengineering and Decolonization
November 11, 2020 22:30 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBWhat kind of system of knowledge considers it a good idea to try to manipulate the whole climate of an entire planet? For our second of two episodes on geoengineering, ETC Group's Dru Jay spoke to Tom Goldtooth, who is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network about the meaning of colonization, what is called decolonization and Indigenous perspectives on geoengineering,
#6: Geoengineering and the Global South (with Silvia Ribeiro)
October 02, 2020 18:57 - 22 minutes - 21 MBWho is behind schemes to block the sun and suck carbon out of the air – instead of rapidly reducing emissions? ETC Latin America Director Silvia Ribeiro talks about who is driving the geoengineering agenda and how geoengineering will affect people and ecosystems in the Global South. For more about Geoengineering, visit http://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org or read the Big Bad Fix (https://www.etcgroup.org/content/big-bad-fix)
#5: Algorithmic Colonisation with Abeba Birhane
September 18, 2020 13:31 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this podcast episode, ETC Group speaks to Abeba Birhane, a PhD candidate in cognitive science at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science. Birhane talks about her work on the algorithmic colonisation of Africa, why we need to normalise critical thinking on new technologies and if there is such a thing as “ethical" AI.
#4: What is Technology? With Jim Thomas
August 01, 2020 00:11 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBZahra Moloo asks Jim Thomas a seemingly simple question: what is technology? The answer takes us into the core of ETC's work, and the basic ideas behind our multi-decade push for Technology Assessment, and explains how "Mooney's Law" works.
#3: Which New Normal? ETC on COVID, food systems and big tech
May 27, 2020 20:22 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBThis episode is also available with video. Those backing risky new technologies are seeing growing profits and power during the COVID-19 crisis. From fast-tracking genomic testing and novel vaccines to automation of ‘people-free’ supply chains, the pandemic is benefitting Big Tech. From the rise of Zoom and Netflix to enhanced data-surveillance of populations, Silicon Valley and its financial backers are not only shaping how the crisis is lived, but are positioning themselves to shape beh...
#2: The Next Agribusiness Takeover
May 04, 2020 17:02 - 31 minutes - 29 MBIn this episode (recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest), ETC Founder Pat Mooney discusses ETC's communiqué, The Next Agribusiness Takeover: Multilateral Food Agencies and the moves powerful corporate actors are making to take over global food policy institutions.
#1: Gene drive organisms in Africa
November 12, 2019 00:40 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBETC's Tom Wakeford speaks with Ugandan lawyer and advocate Barbara Ntambirweki about gene drives, a powerful new genetic technology that can change species in the wild and make species go extinct.