Yesterday, African ministers made history at #AMCENat40-rejecting solar geoengineering and calling for a global Non‑Use Agreement. 🌍✊. Read more here: #ClimateAction #Africa #GeoEngineering @afri_tap

Victory at #AMCEN20! African countries have unanimously rejected Solar Radiation Management & called for a solar geoengineering Non-Use Agreement. This is a huge win for Africa!” .@erc_earth @ciel_tweets @HOMEAlliance_ @FoEAfrica @IndigenousTimez @EcoHomef

RT @HOMEAlliance_: Panganga highlights the lack of free, prior, informed consent with communities like theirs that have intimate relationsh….

🚨 Governance gap alert! . Many biodigital tools are moving faster than regulations can keep up. How can we ensure accountability and fairness in this fast-changing landscape? How do we protect the #smallholder farmers in Africa?. #PolicyMatters #BiodigitalGovernance .@afri_tap

Now AI programmes designing proteins – “design me a virus”, “design me a bacteria”. Can produce dangerous bioweapons and toxins this way. And for communities, a whole new set of concerns – now a new AI-designed version of stevia, direct threat to stevia exports. @afri_tap

⛓️🪢Data colonialism. This pattern not new. Large companies grabbing land and resources to deliver them profits. #Undersea cables arrive in Africa at exactly the same sites as the slave trade was conducted. @afri_tap @Afsafrica @BIBA_Kenya

Data centres full of computers that have to be cooled down with water all day long. They are the size of university campuses. About 10,000 globally, but many more now being built. Africa a key target for building more.Takes fresh water away from communities. @afri_tap @Afsafrica

RT @BIBA_Kenya: Today we met with Hon. Wilfred Longronyang, CECM for Agriculture, West Pokot, to finalize preparations for the launch of th….

😭Quite depressing. Right?. Eg genetically engineered soybeans, so that when stressed they glow, but can only be seen by particular machine-vision mounted onto a tractor. Then the machine sprays water. Entanglement between the biological and digital designs. Robot-ready crops!

🤔Now trying to enter other sectors, like food, mining and health. Massive potential new markets for these corporations, eg for plant DNA,soil data, commodities trading, data about people buy & consume food, weather data, genomic information about wild species. What's the catch?

Is there need to worry?. Rise of #digital tech led to the rise of powerful tech corporations such as Meta, Google, Ebay. Now another phase with #ArtificialIntelligence, leading to exceedingly powerful AI companies. Data is often called the ‘new oil’. @Afsafrica @afri_tap

Jim Thomas says, "“The rise of genetic manipulation is now colliding with the fight for digital rights. We’ve moved from digitizing sounds and images to digitizing life itself — soil, seeds, genes, heartbeats, even behaviors. The race to turn living systems into data is here.”

Today we delve into "Understanding Biodigital Technologies: A Global Overview and The Impact on Food Systems". This is the first in a series of webinars in advance of the first ever pan-African bio-digital technologies conference in Addis Ababa later this year.

📣ETC Group @afri_tap @Afsafrica webinar "Understanding Biodigital Technologies: A Global Overview and Impact on Food Systems” starts soon, all welcome #NoFalseSolutions.🗓️Jul 11, 2025 .⏰5pm EAT, 3pm WAT, 4pm CEST.🔗Register in advance for this meeting:

RT @HOMEAlliance_: 🔴 Instead of cooling the planet safely, Solar Radiation Management/Manipulation could:.🌧️ Disrupt monsoons.🌾 Threaten fo….

RT @HOMEAlliance_: Join our side event 'Halting the Engineering of Our Planet' as our members share why geoengineering is a hoax to divert….

RT @HOMEAlliance_: Join our press conference 'Geoengineering Africa and Beyond: A Dangerous Distraction' .📢 Press Conference at UNFCCC SB62….

RT @HOMEAlliance_: Join our event Stop Geoengineering: Our Home is Not a Laboratory we talk about the threats that geoengineering poses and….

RT @InfoNyeleni: Nearly half of the world’s population lives in countries that spend more on #debt repayments than on public services! Nyél….

ETC Group/@GRAIN_org latest food & farming research update reveals extreme corporate control in 6 crucial sectors: commercial seeds, pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, farm machinery, animal pharmaceuticals & livestock genetics.