213 posts
by HOMEf | Jun 15, 2016 | Hunger Politics
We have read with interest Monsanto’s defence of NBMA in its response to Premium Time’s report highlighting NBMA’s surreptitious granting of permits to them to bring their GMOs and glyphosate...
by HOMEf | Jun 5, 2016 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
Despite the promise of the Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jibril that “Nigeria would not mortgage the safety of its citizens by introducing unproven products into the country” and...
by HOMEf | May 30, 2016 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
At the conclusion of the conference on Just Governance: The Nigerian Biosafety Law, GMOs, and Implications for Nigeria and Africa held at Reiz Continental Hotel, Abuja, May 23-25, 2016; we,...
by HOMEf | May 30, 2016 | Hunger Politics
These are the welcome words spoken by Nnimmo Bassey, Director Health of Mother Earth Foundation, at the Conference on The Nigerian Biosafety Act and GMOs – Implications for Nigerians and...
by HOMEf | Mar 22, 2016 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
More than 100 groups representing over 5 million Nigerians, comprising of farmers, faith-based organisations, civil society groups, students and local community groups, are vehemently opposing Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically...
by HOMEf | Jan 16, 2016 | Hunger Politics
By Terran Giacomini I participated in La Vía Campesina’s international delegation to the United Nations climate meeting (COP21) in Paris, France, from December 5 to 12, 2015. It was evident...
by HOMEf | Oct 20, 2014 | Hunger Politics
Every January and for almost two decades GM crop proponents celebrate the arrival of report of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech (ISAAA) on commercialized GM crops. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...