Farmers produce food, not carbon. Yet, if some of the governments and corporate lobbies negotiating at the UN climate change conference to be held in Warsaw from 11-22 November have their way, farmland could soon be considered as a carbon sink that polluting corporations can buy into to compensate for their harmful emissions.
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Interview with Joao Pedro Stedile from MST and Via Campesina Brazil on FAO elections and the world’s food problems. By Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS, Rio de Janeiro.