A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution. Chris Milton reports
… Africa's Green Revolution 2.0: rejecting … is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the … reports A revolutionary new initiative in African farming was launched earlier this year …
Ravaged for decades by famine and war, Ethiopia is trying to eliminate hunger for good with organic farming. Robin Maynard met the man spearheading the campaign
… years he has, as the spokesperson for the Africa Group in negotiations to establish the … their claims that GM crops are the answer to Africa’s hunger and poverty. In 1998 he and representatives of all the African nations (bar South Africa) signed a …
Green revolution approach of expensive fertilisers and seeds is failing and needs replacing with projects that prevent food waste, build resilience to climate change, and strengthen city farming
… Food And Farming Worldwatch Seeds Gm Biotech Africa ploughs_into_swords_01.jpg Authors say … seeds, provide a sustainable solution to Africa's food needs, according to a report … said the emphasis on advancing agriculture in Africa through more productive seeds and …
Proposed merger between Dupont-owned Pioneer Hi-Bred and Pannar Seeds could spell disaster for local farmers and food security, watchdog claims
… Monsanto in new move to consolidate South African seed market Kara Moses | 1st December … Activists claim attempts to consolidate South Africa's seed market could further expand … between two giant seed companies in South Africa has raised concerns among campaign …
After a run of low quality GM cotton crops with unusually short fibres, Burkina Faso has ended its love affair with Monsanto's Bt cotton, writes Claire Robinson. In a further blow to the company, growers are demanding $280 million compensation for their losses.
… 1st February 2016 News Burkina Faso Gm Cotton Africa Burkinabè Monsanto dadjan wassinatou, … could help decide the future of GM crops in Africa, Burkina Faso has abandoned GM Bt … documented in a new briefing in the journal African Affairs , which is published by Oxford …
A charity has given millions to a biotechnology organisation in an aim to advance the use of biotechnology on crops in developing countries.
… aims to streamline GM crop technology into Africa The Ecologist | 1st March 2009 News Biotechnology Monsanto Africa Gm Science And Technology Politics And … organisation, funded by Monsanto, to lobby African governments and smooth the entry of GM …
Global banks, investment houses and pension funds are gobbling up farmland in poor countries for food and biofuels production. GRAIN, winners of the 2011 Right Livelihood Award, says this secretive and unjust practice needs to stop
… fuels a secretive and unethical land grab in Africa Henk Hobbelink | 9th December 2011 … were out in the streets of Durban, South Africa, protesting the negotiations over false … of all the EU! Most of this is happening in Africa, where people's customary rights to …
The greatest challenge facing agricultural scientists is how to work with farmers producing more ecological and healthier food - not GM, argues Patrick Mulvany, chair of the UK Food Group and advisor to Practical Action
… farming 'can double food production in Africa over next 10 years' Low-input farming … significant increases in food production in Africa, south-east Asia and South America NEWS … Success of agroecology in Brazil, Cuba and Africa should be replicated in place of …
After years of failing to make its modified products do its bidding, the biotech industry is changing tack – now its modifying the protestors. Jonathan Matthews reports from South Africa
… Jonathan Matthews reports from South Africa The protesters were the poorest of the … the march popped up the world over – in Africa, North America, India, Australia and … of Economic Affairs which has advocated that African countries should be sold off to …
How do you get your GM crops and herbicides into countries that don't want and can't afford them? Simple - you just wait for a crisis, and offer a helping hand...
… focused on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. He took Malawi as a model, where … or corn is the staple food in most Sub-Sahara African countries. Monsanto was seeking a foothold in the Sub-Sahara Africa. Grant said: 'We haven’t broken through …
Brazil becomes second biggest biotech grower after the US as industry predicts big increases in GM soybean, maize and cotton production in 2010
… February 2010 News Gm Food And Farming Brazil Africa gmmaize.jpg GM maize in Brazil … production in 2010 Brazil, Pakistan and Africa are predicted to see large increase in … Association for Advancement of Science that African farmers needed systems that required …
In August 2006, German chemicals company BASF applied to start GM potato field trials
in Cambridge and Derbyshire as early as next spring. The GM industry is making many
claims about this product, but are these based on the truth? Andy Rees investigates
… of this was Monsanto’s showcase project in Africa, the GM sweet potato. It was claimed … hectare, and that it would lift the poor of Africa out of poverty. However, this crop not … was not a major factor affecting yield in Africa. The claims were made without any …
Plans for GM 'Golden Rice' have divided critics, but Howarth Bouis from HarvestPlus explains why their non-GM biofortified crops with higher portions of key vitamins can succeed in tackling malnutrition
… hope is that a child eating orange maize in Africa 20 years from now will be surprised to … GM crops as it battles famine in the Horn of Africa? In the midst of a dire need to feed … of GM crops - but at what cost? INVESTIGATION Africa's Green Revolution 2.0: rejecting …
The days of Apartheid are over, but once again South Africa is the victim of a dangerous experiment. Jeffery Smith raises the alarm over the government's legislation of genetically modified maize
… of Apartheid are over, but once again South Africa is the victim of a dangerous … PR man Alex Avery in a letter to a South African newspaper. He and others are trying to … here is having on the population. Many South Africans are realising for the first time that …
Campaigners say plants being grown in US may worsen global food crisis, while farmers express cross-contamination fears
… The European Union, South Korea, and South Africa have not approved its import. Enogen … and nanotechnology in farming INVESTIGATION Africa's Green Revolution 2.0: rejecting … is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the …
We didn’t want GM on your table, but the crucial question now is, will we allow it in our tanks? Robin Maynard and Pat Thomas report
… for biodiesel use. Last year, Tony Blair’s Africa Commission declared that mass growing of biofuels in Africa, ‘provides a sustainable development path for the many African countries that can produce biofuels …
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square?
… per cent cut is required to avoid genocide in Africa smacks of political pragmatism, too, … of charge. If we are going to work in the African continent, as we are – because we are … spending roughly £1.2 billion per year in the African continent; that’s a massive increase – …
In the past decade, the sales pitch of the biotech companies has shifted with the climate of public opinion. Public scepticism has remained high, but politicians seem to have bought enthusiastically into the GM ‘solution’. In many ways this encapsulates where science has gone wrong – by inventing technologies without first deciding what problems need addressing. If GM crops are the answer, what exactly is the problem?
… told the BBC that GM crops ‘were part of our Africa strategy’. Dodging the magic bullet People in Africa, however, are not by any means … often presented as the solution to hunger in Africa, but they are simply the means by which …
Greenpeace's chief scientist Dr Paul Johnston on why recent proposals to expand GM technology support a flawed agricultural system and serve the biotech companies with the greatest vested interests
… of an expansion in GM crops INVESTIGATION Africa's Green Revolution 2.0: rejecting … is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the …
Why are GM crops being grown, how are plants genetically modified, where is it being cultivated, who’s in control and what is being researched and developed?
… cent of the world’s GM crops in 2002. South Africa and Australia accounted for most of the … in 2001 were from Monsanto seeds. • In Africa just three corporations – Syngenta, … formal sector seed markets. • In South Africa Monsanto has total control of the …
The GM public debate, which runs throughout June and July, is the public’s chance to express any concerns it may have over the growing of GM crops in Britain. Andy Rowell explains why your participation is vital
… crops and drugs in over 24 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. ‘There … a farmer from Makhatini Flats in South Africa. Zoellick’s tactics are simple. In the last two years he has met every African trade minister in a bid to get them to …
The man on the phone said he was from the BBC. They were interested in interviewing me about my alleged involvement in crimes against humanity.
… ships being turned back at sea by a southern African nation in the grip of terrible famine. … the high yielding GM product for Africa, which King described in such loving …
Technology is constructive but also hugely destructive. It’s high time that we begin to think seriously – and innovatively – about tempering its damaging effects
… think we are. This article first appeared in Africa Geographic, www.africageographic.com READ MORE... GREEN …
Last year celebrity pig farmer Jimmy Doherty kept 1000 organically reared pigs, while this year apparently he's raised barely 200. But if Jimmy’s farm is on the skids, the same cannot be said of his career as a media celeb.
… There’s not a single GM showcase project in Africa that’s ever succeeded. But while they … of GM food aid that falsely implied that Africans may have starved and it was all …