GM Promoters Create Poverty and Dependency in Africa say leading African Activists
By Nnimmo Bassey[1], Million Belay[2] and Mariam Mayet[3] The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian’s PovertyMatters Blog[i], is a […]
Monsanto faces strong opposition to GM cotton from Malawi civil society
Source - GMWatch. Civil society groups in Malawi are strongly opposing the proposed release of Monsanto’s GM cotton on scientific, legal, and socio-economic grounds. Monsanto faces strong […]
Press Release- UN Climate experts: Green Revolution leaves food systems vulnerable to climate change
The United Nations’ experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have stated that the so-called “green revolution” is leaving agriculture vulnerable to climate change, and that new approaches […]
The Declaration of Vienna: Protect our natural heritage, biodiversity and food security!
DECLARATION IN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, LIFE AND JUSTICE: “Protect our natural heritage, biodiversity and resulting food security!” – an urgent call to action The fundamental human right to be […]
Seeds Under Siege - A roundup of latest threats
To mark the release of our new film, Seeds of Sovereignty, we have pulled together an overview of the latest threats to seed across the world. In Europe…, […]
New Film - African Communities take Seed Diversity Back into their Own Hands
As the world’s agriculture and food systems face a crisis of disappearing seed diversity, our new short film offers a compelling insight into the ways in which African farming communities and […]
New Report: farming won’t adapt to climate change without seed diversity
The new report, “Seeds for Life: scaling up agrobiodiversity”, highlights how the dramatic loss of global seed diversity in recent decades means that farming systems around the world now and in […]
GM crops are no solution to malnutrition! Groups in Asia support Filipino farmers’ uprooting of Golden Rice
Source: GRAIN PRESS RELEASE more than 400 farmers, church people, students, academics and consumers uprooted a field trial of genetically modified (GM) rice […]
Africa’s Food Sovereignty Under Attack By Corporate Interests
Press Release. From the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa Africa’s Food Sovereignty Under Attack By Corporate Interests Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of pan-African […]
GM crops won’t help African farmers: Million Belay and Ruth Nyambura
Originally published on the Guardian Poverty Matters blog. Last week we heard that Owen Paterson, the UK’s environment minister, is claiming that GM crops are necessary to help address hunger in […]