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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

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Subject: [SANET-MG] Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured 
Big Conservation?
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:43:01 -0500
From: jonathan latham <jrlatham@BIOSCIENCERESOURCE.ORG>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Independent Science News:
Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation?
http://independentsciencenews.org/environment/way-beyond-greenwashing-
have-multinationals-captured-big-conservation/

Synopsis:
Led by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), many of the biggest
conservation nonprofits including Conservation International and the
Nature Conservancy have agreed a series of formal global bargains
with international agribusiness. In exchange for vague promises of
habitat protection, sustainability and social justice in developing
countries, these conservation groups are offering to greenwash
industrial commodity agriculture. The 'market transformation'
methodology of the conservation nonprofits is a series of
"Responsible" and "Sustainable" certification schemes for commodity
crops that aim to dominate the market for Palm oil, Soybeans, Cocoa,
Sugar, Biofuels, Cotton and farmed Salmon and Shrimp. The schemes,
however, have none of the qualities of meaningful certification. They
have low and ambiguous standards, questionable verification, no
enforcement, and dubious traceability. What they will do is mislead
the public, undermine organic and fairtrade agriculture, deflect
attention from the real perpetrators of deforestation and destructive
agriculture, and perhaps destroy the food movement, without
delivering any social or ecological benefits.

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this important article, if you can.
Apologies for any cross-posting

Yours sincerely
Jonathan


Jonathan Latham (PhD)
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