Author Archives AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

• AFSA Holding Its 4th AGM in Accra, Ghana

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On August 5, 2015

  – Press Release African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal AFSA (Alliance for Food Sovereignty in […]

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• African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On July 12, 2015

  The underlying imperatives are to increase corporate seed imports and facilitate the monopoly by foreign companies of local seed […]

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• Draft ARIPO Plant Variety Protocol Undermines Farmers’ Right to Save, Exchange & Sell Seeds

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On June 25, 2015

  An analysis by Sangeeta Shashikant (Third World Network) — A new draft legal framework for […]

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• ARIPO Shuns African Farmers over PVP Protocol Abolishing Farmers’ Rights to Seeds

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On June 15, 2015

  Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), 9 June 2015 Source: http://afsafrica.org/aripo-shuns-african-farmers-over-pvp-protocol-abolishing-farmers-rights-to-seeds/ MEDIA ADVISORY: ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA […]

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• Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On February 17, 2015

  Across Africa, laws are being rewritten […]

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• Africa’s land and seed laws under attack: who’s pushing for changes in Africa?

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On January 23, 2015

  Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, 22 January 2015 Report Source: http://afsafrica.org/africas-land-and-seed-laws-under-attack-whos-pushing-changes-in-africa/ The lobby to industrialise food production in Africa is […]

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• US Human Trials of GM Banana for Africa Widely Condemned

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On December 12, 2014

  Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Press Release 10 December 2014 […] The Open Letter is supported by more than 120 organizations […]

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• Railroading African Govts Into Adopting Aripo Pvp Protocol Based On Upov 1991: Afsa Appeals To Aripo Member States For Postponement Of Diplomatic Conference And For Urgent Consultations With Small-Holder Farmers

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On November 3, 2014

  AFSA – 03 November 2014 Source: http://afsafrica.org/railroading-african-govts-into-adopting-aripo-pvp-protocol-based-on-upov-1991-afsa-appeals-to-aripo-member-states-for-postponement-of-diplomatic-conference-and-for-urgent-consultations-with-small-hol/ The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a Pan African platform comprising […]

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• Acquisition of Africa’s SeedCo by Monsanto, Groupe Limagrain: Neo-colonial occupation of Africa’s seed systems

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On October 8, 2014

  Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), 7 October 2014 Source: http://afsafrica.org/acquisition-of-africas-seedco-by-monsanto-groupe-limagrain-neo-colonial-occupation-of-africas-seed-systems/ Media Release Addis Ababa 7 October 2014 The […]

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• GMOs promote poverty and dependency in Africa

  
  

  • By AFSA - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • On July 31, 2014

  by Nnimmo Bassey, Million Belay, and Mariam Mayet – Grain, 25 July 2014 Source: http://whww.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/4973-gmos-promote-poverty-and-dependency-in-africa The recent article, GM scaremongering […]

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