Pat Mooney
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Pat Mooney is a member of the IPES-Food panel, a co-founder and former director of ETC Group (the Action Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration), an IFOAM Ambassador (International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements), and is chair of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).
A Canadian national, for more than 55 years, he has worked within international civil society and is the author or co-author of several books on the politics of seeds, agrobiodiversity, biopiracy and new technologies including genomics and nanotechnologies and big data.
He is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (1985) in the Swedish Parliament, the Pearson Peace Prize (1998) from Canada’s Governor General, and the American Giraffe Award (for ‘sticking his neck out’), and received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and the 17 Advanced Research Institutes (Mexico) in 2017.
He was lead author for the IPES-Food/ETC “Long Food Movement” Report, the IPES-Food study on agribusiness concentration, “Too Big to Feed”, and authored another report for the German Rosa Luxembourg foundation on big data in agriculture, “Breaking the Chain”. He is retired and living with his wife in rural Québec.
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