publications

The ACB and TWN have put together a short Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) Project. 

Grab these short, easy reading factsheets and share it with your friends.

These graphics, captured in an easy to read and visually informative manner, illustrate the stark difference of practices and values between the current industrial food system and agroecological food systems.

Click on a heading below and download an A4 information sheet in your preferred language.

Is our PAP safe?
Download

It is a matter of urgency that we break up these cartels that have South African consumers, especially the poorest of the poor, in a vice grip through control of our two staple foods ? maize and bread. South Africans eat about 28 billion loaves of bread and, on average, about 100kg of maize and maize-related products each year ?

An introduction to GM seeds: why they?re so different to what we know

What is genetic modification (GM)?

Genetically modified maize in South Africa

Genetically modified cotton in South Africa

Labelling of genetically modified food in South Africa

Genetically modified crops in South Africa: a failure for farmers

International law governing GMOs

What you should know about GM crops

Genetically modified soya in South Africa

'Marker Assisted Selection' uses molecular markers as tools in a plant or animal breeding programme to select for important agricultural traits, such as nutritional quality, drought tolerance, disease and pest resistance.

After more than 10 years of genetically modified (GM) crop plants being grown in the world, only South Africa out of 53 countries on the African continent have commercial plantings of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Monsanto and Genetic Modification in South Africa Facts For South African Consumers - Feb 2006 African Centre for Biosafety.
read more

Monsanto and Genetic Modification in South Africa Facts For South African Consumers - Feb 2006 African Centre for Biosafety read more.