The developed world especially Western Europe and North America have embraced genetic engineering in the medical field, mainly because the benefits can
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Farmers water tomatoes at a garden in Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, last month. Some Civil Society Organisations have cancelled their participation in the United Nations Food Systems Summit. PHOTO/TOBBIAS JOLLY OWINY
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According to them, large-scale agriculture also requires major investments in the form of machinery, grains and seeds meaning that poorer farmers in many African countries are excluded from the advantages of intensive agriculture.
In March 2018, delegates under the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) converged at a high-level UN summit in Rome, Italy, to drum up support for Agroecology in Africa.
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Planning documents for the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit shed new light on the agenda behind the controversial food summit that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are boycotting. The groups say agribusiness interests and elite foundations are dominating the process to push through an agenda that would enable the exploitation of global food systems, and especially Africa.
The documents, including a background paper prepared for summit dialogues and a draft policy brief for the summit, bring into focus “plans for the massive industrialization of Africa’s food systems,” said Mariam Mayet, executive director of the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), who provided the documents to U.S. Right to Know.
Towards a People’s Vaccine Campaign: A call to action
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