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White men meet in London to plot ways of profiting off Africa's seed systems

A meeting is to be held in London on 23 March by predominantly white men with a sprinkling of Africans, some of whom represent private seed companies, to discuss how to make a killing off Africa?s seed systems.

In this paper, we critically analyse the African Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) project, a GM 'poster project' in Africa. We dig beneath the veneer of the project being an "African led solution" to poverty and malnutrition on the continent.

17 June 2010 The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) today published a third research paper in its 'Sorghum Series'1titled, 'Th

Author: Edward Hammond About the briefing: The interlocking problems of climate change, emissions from fossil fuels, and limited oil reserves have stimulated interest worldwide in the use of plant crops to produce fuel. Agrofuels are not a new idea.