APRIL 17 and 18 were incredibly bad days for the Philippines agricultural sector and the quest for food security and food affordability for all of us who have watched prices at the grocery store or market steadily increase week after week. The damage that was done may not be apparent now, but it will be in the coming months if something is not done to fix it.
PRINCIPLE 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration laid out the premise of the precautionary rule in international environmental law. It states: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.
A Philippine court has blocked the commercial propagation of genetically modified golden rice because it said conflicting scientific views gave rise to "severe" health and environmental safety concerns
ABOUT a year ago, I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. I talked about our advocacy against the commercialization of two GMOs. First, Malusog or Golden Rice was touted as the answer to vitamin A deficiency in Asia and Africa.
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