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 on the 29th June-1st July to consider the adoption of a new regional Protocol on the Protection of New Varieties of Plant (Draft Protocol). The Draft Protocol marks... Read More

17/06/2015  Millions of pounds of UK aid money have been invested in a project in Tanzania which is destroying the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, driving them into debt and impacting the local environment, according to a new report by The Oakland Institute released today in collaboration with Greenpeace Africaand Global Justice Now. The... Read More

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 African GMO authorities for Monsanto to commercially sell its genetically modified (GM) “drought tolerant” maize seed for cultivation in South Africa. According to the groups, there is no... Read More

23/5/2015  From Paris to Ouagadougou, thousands of people took to the streets Saturday to protest against the American biotechnology giant Monsanto and its genetically modified crops and pesticides. The third annual March Against Monsanto was being held in upwards of 400 cities in more than 40 countries. About 2,500 people... Read More

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, backed by multinational seed companies, are imposing oppressive seed laws that attack the continent’s main food producers and open the way to industrial agribusiness. But Ghana’s women farmers... Read More

23/04/2015  On GMOs, the report says development and application of modern biotechnology presents a potential technological intervention with associated concerns to human and animal health, socio-economic wellbeing and the environment. It says GMOs environmental concerns include contamination of crops through gene transfer and the development of “super weeds” that could... Read More

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 South Africa, according to a new first-of-its-kind study. Natural Society noted recently that the contaminant now present in Eastern Cape, South Africa, has essentially occurred due to the hubris... Read More

13/03/2015  Small Scale Farmers Score More on Seed Savings and Multiplication Agriculture occupies a very important place in the lives of Tanzanians as well as the national economy.  Seeds are not only a strong symbol for food sovereignty and biodiversity, but also one of the important elements to strengthen small... Read More