Source: ACBio, 3 April 2016
Posted in Seed Freedom on April 4, 2016
Image source: https://acbio.org.za/corporate-expansion/africa-lose-heritage-crops-multinationals-donating-gm-technology/
AFRICA TO LOSE HERITAGE CROPS TO MULTINATIONALS ‘DONATING’ GM TECHNOLOGY…
By: Sarah McColl
Date: April 4th 2016
Source: Takepart.com
By: Kavitha Iyer
Date: March 26th 2016
Source: Indian Express
By: Luyolo Mkentane
Date: March 24th 2016
Source: IOL.co.za
Johannesburg - Mining conglomerates have been criticised as being among issues threatening South Africa’s food security as prime agricultural land was being taken over for the sole preserve of coal mining.
Agriculture industry role-players said the scourge was rife in the farming provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo, and have asked the government to intervene.
By: Isis Almeida
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Bloomberg Business
Lower social status mean women get less food in many countries
Women are responsible for more than 50% of global food output
Women account for 70 percent of the world’s hungry even as they produce more than half of the global food output, the United Nations said.
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
Lucknow - On the eve of International Women's Day, while UP [Uttar Pradesh] celebrates an increased participation of women in its block and zila panchayats, higher even than the Central proposal of 50% reservation for women in local bodies, ownership of land among women remains abysmally low.
By: Ilona Amos
Date: February 28th 2016
Source: The Scotsman
FARMERS must change the way land is used in order to safeguard human health, food supplies and the environment, Scottish scientists have warned.
By: Mike Cohen and Eric Ombok
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Business Day Live
JOSEPHINE Mbinya bends from the waist to pluck beans from the black soil on her smallholding south of Nairobi. She throws them in a heap on the side of the field.
By: Admin
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: News Ghana
Ghana is in rough spot. Its commodity prices are falling and the country’s last resort which is the agriculture sector is being threatened by the activities of Fulani herdsmen who migrate into the country from the Sahelian region of West Africa.
By: Arya Dipa
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Jakarta Post
An architect by training, 26-year-old Ronaldiaz Hartantyo has decided to make a living as a farmer, a career choice most Indonesian people of his age would never think of.
