Citizens of the world oppose intellectual property over seed, reclaim and restore local food systems and agricultural biodiversity
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--- Press release --- Johannesburg, 5 June 2020
The GM potato push in Rwanda: With regulatory hurdles in Uganda, is this the industry’s fall back?
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To enable the introduction of the first GM crop to be grown in Rwanda – a GM potato variety named ‘Victoria’ – the Rwandan government is fast-tracking the development of a biosafety policy and legal framework.
Civil society is deeply concerned about the potential risks of this GM potato variety, which has been genetically modified through cisgenesis – a process that involves taking three genes from three wild South American potato varieties to confer resistance to late blight.
More poisoning of South Africa’s staple food given the go-ahead: 2,4-D GM maize varieties approved
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The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) is extremely alarmed to learn that three genetically modified maize varieties developed by Corteva (new name of the Dow-DuPont merged entity) to withstand the application of the dangerous 2,4-D herbicide have been approved for general release by the Executive Council: GMO Act. This poses a grave threat to the health of food consumers, farm workers and the environment.