Together with 37 organisations from across Europe, CEO launched the #StopGlyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI) this morning. We're jointly trying to collect signatures from at least one million EU citizens before the summer - an ambitious but urgent goal we are hoping to reach as the European Commission and national governments will likely take their final decision on glyphosate then. The petition is hosted by WeMove.eu.
"Ukraine is also one of the 10 pilot countries in the World Bank's new Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture (BBA) project," Mittal told IPS, referring to a brand new initiative, still in the development stage, which is connected to the Bank's controversial Doing Business rankings. But the OI [Oakland Institute] report's co-author Frédéric Mousseau says initiatives like the BBA and others exist primarily to pry open Ukraine's doors, hitherto sealed by its socialist traditions, to foreign capital.