Monologue for Two: Helena Paul

During those years she also worked on the impacts of oil exploitation in the tropics and spent several years as European representative on the international committee of Oilwatch International. Helena Paul is co-author of the book “Hungry Corporations – transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain” and editor of the English Edition of “Healthy Crops, A New Agricultural Revolution”, by Francis Chaboussou. She also edited “The Forest Within” by Gerardo Reichel Dolmatoff, a Colombian anthropologist. Helena is presently involved in the international negotiations of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with regard to agro fuels, land use issues, agriculture, soils and climate change. She is focusing in particular on the impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems of proposed “solutions” to climate change, and the implications for the future.