PRESS RELEASE LUSAKA, 29th January 2024: ARE WE BEING FED GENETICALLY MODIFIED MAIZE?

PRESS RELEASE LUSAKA, 29th January 2024ARE WE BEING FED GENETICALLY MODIFIED MAIZE? According to the Zambia National Service (ZNS) Commander, Lt. General Maliti Soloch, the answer is a resounding NO! He also urged Zambias to “trust the mealie meal labelled green, it is non-GMO…. It is high time we started having the culture of speaking the truth so that we can stand on integrity when we speak” (26thJanuary 2024). And during the weekly media engagement on the same day, Zambia’s Minister of Information and Media and […]

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The FOOD WE WANT: AFSA endorses The Global Call to Action Against UPOV

    On 8 December 2021, The Alliance for the Food Sovereignty in Africa met in Nairobi, Kenya. As representatives from 55 African countries, and over 30 million smallholder farmers, pastoralists, hunter/gatherers, indigenous peoples, faith-based institutions, women and youth networks, consumer networks and civil society from across Africa, we join in the global call of action against the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), and thoroughly reject its imposition on our continent’s food systems. UPOV is at the heart of […]

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