by HOMEf | Jun 13, 2013 | Hunger Politics
Civil society organisations from the SADC region, and around the world have condemned the SADC draft Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (Plant Breeders’ Rights) as spelling disaster for small farmers and food security in the region. These groups,...
by HOMEf | Apr 30, 2013 | Hunger Politics
GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) have been a subject of intense debate in the last decade. There are still a lot of people who hav no clue what GMOs are and why there is so much emotion over the issue. The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), has complied a series...
by HOMEf | Apr 20, 2013 | Hunger Politics
The Africa Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has dismissed the findings of the biotechnology industry’s flagship annual report, published by the GM industry funded ‘NGO’, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), as...
by HOMEf | Mar 11, 2013 | Hunger Politics
An analyst says, food is a weapon and if Western multinationals control the food in Africa with GMO, they control the life, control politics. In the background of this, GMO (genetically modified organisms), a farming technology that promises hardier crops to cope with...
by HOMEf | Jan 9, 2013 | Hunger Politics
Food production and hunger continue to be issues of major concern in Nigeria and in Africa as a whole. The continent has been the poster child of hunger and malnutrition since the structural adjustment programme (SAP) policies decimated the agricultural sector from...
by HOMEf | Dec 5, 2012 | Hunger Politics
The book “Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods”, edited by Niels Halberg, ICROFS, and Adrian Müller, FiBL, was recently published by Routledge. The book contains African cases and is an important tool for advocating for the Organic Alternative...
