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Study on inclusion of contract farming in fair trade standards pledges for caution
A recently released study commissioned by the Fair Trade Platform (association of major French fair trade organizations) and carried out by the NGO Agronomists and Veterinarians Without Borders on the integration of contract farming in Fair Trade since 2005 and 2006...
Age of co-construction: what intellectual property rights for biodiversity and its knowledge?
At the end of the year 2012, the future of the Earth makes the headlines. To the point that it could be named Person of the Year by Time magazine, if we take into account the number of events and news that have been dedicated to it during the year. Several important...
Salone del Gusto – Terra Madre: tasty food is a friend of biodiversity
With Taste Salon and Terra Madre, two annual events of the Slow Food movement organised this year together at Torino, biodiversity was playing in a specific register. Born in Italy, the Slow Food movement movement is known to work for the restoration of local...
Biodiversité : après Hyderabad quels enjeux ?
La 11e Conférence des Parties à la Convention sur la Diversité Biologique (COP11) s'est déroulée à Hyderabad, en Inde, au mois d'octobre. Pendant deux semaines, les représentants des 164 pays signataires de la CDB ont examiné les deux questions à l'ordre du...
Putting the Rio+20 agenda heads back up: from green economy to transition
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, nicknamed Rio + 20 was celebrated a few weeks ago. Twenty years after the famous "Earth Summit," is humanity finally ready to take up its commitment to sustainable development, or maybe even just the concept of...
3 approaches to conciliate economy and ecology
Can the economy be reconciled with the environment? These ways of understanding reality seem so remote that reconciliation appears as complex or impossible for many people. Yet steps to reconcile economic activity to the logic of life exist. I invite you to discover...
Pierre W. Johnson
International consultant, study and sustainable development of natural products value chains. Specialist of markets of origin, quality and high value products. Expert on Access and Benefit Sharing.
Keynote speaker on transition to an ecological economy & society.
Member of the
International Value Links Association.
Associate expert to Tero.
