ETC Group podcasts

Bienvenides a Nyéléni: Una oportunidad para cambiarlo todo , un podcast que nos sumerge en el mundo de la soberanía alimentaria a través de las voces y experiencias de quienes construyen este movimiento global. En este tercer episodio, “Educación para la transformación” , Margarita y su organización debaten a fondo cuál será el tema principal que llevarán al III Foro Global Nyéléni 2025 en Sri Lan...

Bienvenides a Nyéléni: Una oportunidad para cambiarlo todo , un podcast que nos sumerge en el mundo de la soberanía alimentaria a través de las voces y experiencias de quienes construyen este movimiento global. En este segundo episodio, “Los debates que vienen” , Margarita avanza en los preparativos para viajar al III Foro Global Nyéléni 2025 en Sri Lanka. Mientras organiza su participación, se ad...

Bienvenides a Nyéléni: Una oportunidad para cambiarlo todo , un podcast que nos sumerge en el mundo de la soberanía alimentaria a través de las voces y experiencias de quienes construyen este movimiento global. Inspirado en la figura de Nyéléni, una campesina maliense que se volvió símbolo de resistencia y dignidad, el foro convoca a movimientos sociales y organizaciones de todo el mundo que lucha...

En este tercer y último episodio de "Soberanía alimentaria para un mundo en crisis", reflexionamos acerca de cómo prepararnos para las crisis climáticas que se avecinan. A través de testimonios desde Ecuador, México y Brasil, conocemos experiencias inspiradoras que demuestran que la agroecología es una respuesta real para crear un futuro sostenible. En un mundo cada vez más urbanizado, e...

En este segundo episodio exploramos las redes de resistencia que están transformando nuestro sistema alimentario desde los territorios. Conocemos historias de quienes protegen las semillas ancestrales y los conocimientos tradicionales, especialmente las mujeres que han sido las guardianas históricas de la diversidad genética, frente a un modelo agroindustrial que ha destruido el 75% de la diversid...

El modelo agroindustrial es responsable de hasta el 52% de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Pero en medio de esta crisis, comunidades campesinas están recuperando sus tierras, agricultores adoptan prácticas agroecológicas y consumidores apuestan por alimentos locales y justos. Escucha cómo estas iniciativas están transformando la forma en que producimos y consumimos alimentos. Podcast...

Growing 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 i...

Disruptive 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...

The “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...

Industrial 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...

Los 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 Microsof...

La 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...

In 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.

Find 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.

The 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 Montre...

In 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,...

Find 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.

Why 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...

En 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.

In 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 f...

What 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,

Who 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.etcgr...

In 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.

Zahra 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.

This 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 bac...