#monocultures — Public Fediverse posts

I try to avoid LinkedIn unless I have to go there. But an AgTech investment post celebrating the "Monsanto playbook" as a model to replicate got under my nose badly enough that I had to write about it.

Nobody who knows my work would call me anti-tech. But there's a hard line between technology that increases farmer capability and technology that engineers farmer dependency. The Monsanto playbook is the second kind.

The playbook: own the genetics, bundle the chemicals, capture the data, engineer the debt. Charge the farmer for all of it. Call it innovation.

Also in there: corporate capture of agricultural knowledge, India's farmer suicide crisis, Dark Emu and native grass seeds, and why a loaf of bread can be a political act.

Tech4Good means the farmer gets more capable. Not more dependent.

https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-06-26-monocultures-dumb-by-design/

#RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #Tech4Good #Monocultures #FoodSovereignty #RentSeeking #FoodSystems #RuralAustralia #SlowFood

1/5 A new art book is ready. I don't know why I craft them nor how to explain what I do. It's an intuitive way of working with colours, textures, mixed media and collage, for seeing, touching, and more. A very #meditative work.

This one was the attempt to find something beautiful in our maize #monocultures that I detest.
Just browse my book here.

#artBook #maize #corn #corncob #printing #mixedmedia #collage #paperArt #fiberArt #embroidery #slowStitching #intuitive #intuitiveArt #biodiversity