213 posts
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by HOMEf | Dec 2, 2012 | Hunger Politics
Ibadan Organic Farmers Market was launched in December by the Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria ?NOAN (formerly Nigerian Organic Agriculture Network), the umbrella body for organic agriculture in...
by HOMEf | Dec 1, 2012 | Hunger Politics
At the end of November 2012, the West African Network for Organic Agriculture Research and Training (WANOART) held a full-week workshop on organic certification in Benin. The event was funded...