AFSA Calls on African Govts at Arusha Meeting to Shun Protocol that undermines Farmers’ rights to seed
02/07/2015 Nineteen African nations, members of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), began deliberating on the highly contentious draft ARIPO Plant... Read More
Draft ARIPO Plant Variety Protocol Undermines Farmers’ Right to Save, Exchange & Sell Seeds
29/06/2015 An analysis by Sangeeta Shashikant (Third World Network) A new draft legal framework for the protection of new plant varieties under... Read More
Draft ARIPO Protocol On Plant Varieties: Whose Interest Does it Serve?
29/06/2015 Sangeeta Shashikant (London): Nineteen sub-Saharan African nations, members of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) will be meeting in Tanzania... Read More
Aid donors’ flagship investment deal causing hardship and displacement for Tanzanian farmers
17/06/2015 Millions of pounds of UK aid money have been invested in a project in Tanzania which is destroying the livelihoods of... Read More
African civil society slams Monsanto junk GM maize deal
19/06/2015 Non-governmental and farmer organisations from South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya and Uganda strongly condemn the go-ahead given by the South... Read More
Thousands worldwide march against Monsanto and GM crops
23/5/2015 From Paris to Ouagadougou, thousands of people took to the streets Saturday to protest against the American biotechnology giant Monsanto and... Read More
Ghana’s women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa’s seeds
22/5/2015 Sharing and saving seed is a crucial part of traditional farming all over Africa, writes Heidi Chow. Maybe that’s why governments,... Read More
Report warns on e-waste, GMOs, biofuels
23/04/2015 On GMOs, the report says development and application of modern biotechnology presents a potential technological intervention with associated concerns to human... Read More
Pesticide-producing GM corn contaminates small farmers’ crops in South Africa
24/04/2015 NaturalNews) As biotech experts have warned, genetically modified corn has cross-pollinated with non-GMO strains of maize used by small-time farmers in... Read More
Small Scale Farmers Score More on Seed Savings and Multiplication
13/03/2015 Small Scale Farmers Score More on Seed Savings and Multiplication Agriculture occupies a very important place in the lives of Tanzanians... Read More