by HOMEf | Jul 23, 2014 | Hunger Politics
By Nnimmo Bassey , Million Belay and Mariam Mayet The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian’s (London) PovertyMatters Blog on 21 July 2014, is a thinly veiled attack on those of us in Africa and...
by HOMEf | Dec 2, 2013 | Hunger Politics
Being overweight has long been associated with eating preferences as well as sedentary and less active lifestyles. For long obesity, as well as the problem of being overweight, was seen as the scourge of the western world, linked to the preferences for processed and...
by HOMEf | Oct 16, 2013 | Hunger Politics
16th October, 2013 In a great bit of news for World Food Day, a key Brazilian congressional committee today withdrew the consideration of legislation that would have allowed the sale and use of Terminator Technology, also known as suicide seeds. The Constitutional...
by HOMEf | Oct 9, 2013 | Hunger Politics
The world is facing a food crisis at a time when a full one third of all foods produced are being wasted globally. While this is going on, there are close to one billion people that go to bed on empty stomachs daily. About the same number is malnourished. It may...
by HOMEf | Jul 21, 2013 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
It is with shock and extreme disappointment that we note the position of two ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that the country should import and consume genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The reports quote the ministers of Agriculture , Dr Akinwumi...
by HOMEf | Jul 5, 2013 | Hunger Politics
Myths and outright lies about the alleged benefits of genetically engineered crops (GE crops or GMOs) persist only because the multinationals that profit from them have put so much effort into spreading them around. They want you to believe that GMOs will feed the...
