The South American Gran Chaco is the second largest biome in South America following behind the infamous Amazon Rain Forrest. The Gran Chaco overlaps Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia along with a very small portion in Brazil. The Gran Chaco is semi-arid and is mainly characterized by its savannas and woodland. In the past few decades there has been growing concern about the environmental issues that the Gran Chaco faces. The environmental harm from multinational agribusiness and resource extraction corporations and transnational development plans is not only bad ecologically, but it also affects the small communities and indigenous people living off the Gran Chaco.
As the world’s population grows the demand for food and agribusiness increases.
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Multinational corporations like Monsanto claim that GM crops require fewer applications of herbicide compared to non-GM crops, which reduces the harm to the environment. However, in South America the standard before adoption of GM crops was agricultural traditions that often times did not include any chemicals intensive means to treat weeds. This means that even though GM crops might take less herbicide compared to typical standards in North America, GM crops are ultimately causing more herbicide to be used in South America. There is also a concern that “as chemical control of weeds becomes the norm in developing country agriculture, the potential exists for the emergence of herbicide resistance species that do not respond to the increased chemical treatments.” This only promotes the use of more herbicide which increases the harm to the environment. There are also problems because GM crops have toxins in them. While they are meant to deter pests, they can end up hurting good insects and birds as well. Besides this, there will ultimately be pests that emerge which will be able to resist the toxins. Rendering that benefit of the GM crop useless.
Beside the problems stemming from the fact these crops are genetically modified, there are other problems because of mono-cropping. Mono-cropping reduces the genetic diversity of crops in the region which leads to an increase in the change of famine. Mono-cropping is also more taxing on
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The IIRSA was created in 2000 with the support of all twelve South American countries (excluding French Guiana). Its focus is on international projects around infrastructure, transportation, communications, and energy. It receives support from multilateral and national development banks like the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and the Fund to Develop the Plata River Basin (FONPLATA). It should be noted that the IIDSA is now incorporated in the South American Infrastructure and Planning Council (COSIPLAN), which was created in January 2009. However, the COSIPLAN is still commonly refer to as the IIRSA. Although this development has economic benefits, they come at the cost of the environment and the people living off the land. The Bank Information Center, a National Governmental Organization (NGO) that works with locals in developing countries to influence the World Bank and other international financial institutions to promote social and economic justice and environmental sustainability,
Organizations like the Council of Federated Organization
Throughout chapter 4 of The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, the topic of monoculture is greatly discussed as Pollan’s central theme. Monoculture is seen as a major problem to modern agriculture according to Pollan because it tries to turn something complex into something simple. He discusses the two concepts of biodiversity and monoculture and how they affect modern day agriculture. Pollan discusses many new difficulties that arise from the mass production it provides for everyone. Pollan feels like monoculture is the root problem that many farmers are faced with every year.
With superior positive environmental impact, quality and quantity of GM crops, why would anyone oppose them? The reason to support genetically modified crops is that they produce a superior amount of whatever they supply. Ian Murnaghan says that the increased production could be used to feed people in developing countries or overpopulated areas where enough food is not steadily available. The seeds of these plants may cost more, but the maintenance cost decreases significantly.
Nevertheless, I hold a opposite view, I think GM food is worsening our world rather than improving it. GM food has negative effects on both nature and human while producing and using. Negative Effects on Nature Reduce biodiversity Although through genetic modification, food can contain various kinds of nutrition we need, but in long-term, GM food can threaten the biodiversity of our planet. GM food is
We are not only killing ourselves but our planet too. With the creation of these modified foods and pesticides there is an emergence of new super bugs and super weeds which is threatening our crops and foods. Our farmers are having to increase they’re uses of pesticides and could potentially have to create an even stronger pesticide adding to the problem. In a study conducted in Japan it was proven that there is no way to keep the GM plant from cross contaminating our organic farms and plants. If we can’t keep up our crops healthy and clean we are eventually going to kill ourselves off and kill off our whole planet.
There will be nomore left on the planet. They all will disappear. This is a extreme conflict that scientist and the world is trying to avoid. The third reason i think Gmos are harmful because it can cause enviromental risks. This could also bother our health too because we eat lots of veggies out of the field.
The people should come first and their concerns and thoughts on a project should account for the planning, especially when the project involves developing a region. In order for an international financial institution like the World Bank to really do what is right for a region, the whole infrastructure would have to be re organized. For example, since the United States contributes the most money, they have the most say and the most amount of representatives. Each region that invests into the World Bank only has as much say as their pockets will allow.
It makes opportunities accessible to all people, supported by innovation and resilient infrastructure. Basic infrastructure like roads, information and communication technologies, sanitation, etc, scarce in many developing countries. Global Sustainable Development Goals & myths The relationship between the GSDG N° 9 and the Romulus and Remus myth; This goal talk about industry, innovation and infrastructure, Romulus and Remus built a great city, in terms of innovation, knowledge and architecture The relationship between the GSDG N° 9 and the Dido of Carthage myth; The city that Dido created was rich in innovating buildings and edifications like the port of Carthage
As Monsanto is a multinational company whose products are consumed by the food industry, it has to strictly emphasize on its moral obligations concerning the society where their products are being sold. Such moral obligation includes providing best quality of seeds to the consumers and betterment of farmer’s life (Stern, 2011). For this purpose Monsanto ensures high yielding properties of their seeds and it would prevent against insects eating their precious crops. This would ease the farmers in keeping their crops safe and reduce their hassle to sprinkle pesticides for crop safety. On the contrary these genetically modified seeds reported in causing health related issues on consuming the food grown from them.
This will act as a support system for Algeria to rebuild certain sectors of the country starting with the economy than the infrastructure. By having the Algerian government work closely with experts from developed countries, this will educate not only the government, but farmers, on how to have a sustainable
Rising populations and are rich diets that take a lot more resources to produce than they used to are driving our demand for food up and scientists figure will need 50 percent more food by 2050 but producing this food is going to be hard this is because the rising demand is coming precisely at the same time as high energy prices and climate change are making food harder and more
Some people arrogate that this technology will help those in the agricultural industry decrease the amount of wasted crops and foods. But while there are many benefits of genetically modified foods, there are also potential drawbacks that are present. Here are their advantages and disadvantages:
With the decrease in the size of total farmland and in the number of farmers worldwide, and with the advance of industrial and service sectors at unimaginable pace, food production is not increasing at expected level. Moreover, the increased usage of food products for industrial requirements and bio fuels is also a reason for food scarcity. Apart from this, food production is badly hit by the drastic changes taking place in the climate. It’s a matter of grave concern that all these developments are resulting in hunger. As technology expands, in the backdrop of decrease in the availability of farmland, things seem little better only because the yields are high in the land that is available.
The world population is projected to reach 9.8 billon by 2050, considering the population growth rate of 1.10 percent. It is obvious that the increase in global population particularly that of developing countries in Asia and Africa would increase the demand for food. FAO(n.d) indicates that this increase in population will require the food production to be increased by 70 percent. This increase in population would add pressure to the use of arable land and water resources according to the Population Action International (2011). Further FAO (2009); Population Action International (2011) suggest that 70 percent of the world population would be urban by 2050 resulting in changes to lifestyle and consumption pattern adding more pressure to food
A preparatory commission was mandated in 2011 to take all possible measures to ensure the rapid and effective establishment of the intergovernmental organization. States which do not cause global warming are among the first to feel it. Such states argued for the establishment of an intergovernmental organization”. The history lives on and continues to be in certain ways that organization dedicated with environmental protection on a global scale and letting out the commission organization