|
African countries urged
to say no to GMOs
Kumasi (Ashanti Region – Gh) - 8 October 2004 - Participants at an
international workshop on ecofarming have called on African countries
to say no to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) that destroy
livelihoods and biodiversity on the continent.
They said Africans were being forced indirectly to accept GMOs, which
was the main cause of genetic erosion and loss of biodiversity on the
continent.
These were contained in a declaration adopted at the end of a two-week
workshop in Kumasi on Thursday.
The workshop, which was organised by the Network for Ecofarming in
Africa (NECOFA), an NGO, was under the theme, "Promotion of
Ecofarming for Food Security, protection of Natural Resources, Health
and Income-Generation".
Participants from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South
Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Benin, Sudan and Malawi,
attended the workshop which was sponsored by the German Government,
the Centre for Food, Rural Development and the Environment (ZEL) of
the German Foundation for International Development (DSE).
The participants called for a stop to the deliberate neutralisation of
African cultural identity by recognising Africans as certifying bodies
of organic produce.
They also called for the rural poor to be given the right to
participate actively in all issues concerning development and policy
formulation.
Addressing the closing ceremony, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Kumasi
Metropolitan Chief Executive, said the introduction of agro chemicals
had led to the neglect of basic African traditional farming practices.
He said there was therefore the need to encourage the reintroduction
of ecofarming efficiently in order to achieve food security on the
Africa continent.
Jumah appealed to the participants to use the knowledge acquired to
promote ecofarming in their respective countries.
Mrs Philomena Boakye Appiah, acting Ashanti Regional Director of the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urged the participants to lobby
and advocate for policies that would enhance the promotion of
ecofarming in their respective countries. GRi…/
-----------------
ECOTERRA Intl.
-----------------
Do you want to read or
distribute a message in another language?
Just go to the free translation sites: http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran/
or (better, but free registration is required) http://www.systransoft.com/
or to Altavista Babelfish http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
or
http://www.t-mail.com/t-text.shtml
for engl., russian or korean
or Freetranslator http://www.freetranslation.com/
or check for arabic
and african automated translators at http://www.bisharat.net/Trans/
or
the Google Language Tools http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
and have the translation done free of charge. Look for other
tools at http://www.omniglot.com/links/translation.htm
.
But, please, still keep the reference to the source and note in your
distribution that the text is only an automated translation, while the
original can be obtained from ECOTERRA. Thank you!
----------------------
ECOTERRA Intl. nodes
Cairns Calgary Cassel Cebu Curitiba
London Nairobi Roma Paris Wien
ECOTERRA - FIRST PEOPLES & NATURE FIRST !
FREEDOM & FUTURE for PEOPLE & NATURE
24 h EMERGENCY RESPONSE: +254-733-633-000
http://www.ecoterra.org.uk
http://www.ecoterra.net
http://www.ecoterra.de
http://www.ecoterra.info
Marine Group: http://www.ecop.info
Eco_Alert · http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Eco_Alert/
green is good - environmentalism is not political - it is sanity !
Please help by becoming a donating subscriber today!
Check our websites for details or contact: ecofund@ecoterra.net
for personalized donations and donation rewards !
Please feel welcome to subscribe to any or all of our free mailing
lists:
(ECOTERRA Intl. keeps your Personally Identifiable Information
confidential
and does not disclose, sell, trade or exchange e-mail addresses or
mailing lists.)
N.B.: These are moderated, low traffic, important issues lists.
Please help by becoming a donating subscriber today!
Check our websites for details or contact: ecofund@ecoterra.net
for personalized donations and donation rewards !
Please feel welcome to subscribe to any or all of our free mailing
lists:
(ECOTERRA Intl. keeps your Personally Identifiable Information
confidential
and does not disclose, sell, trade or exchange e-mail addresses or
mailing lists.)
N.B.: These are moderated, low traffic, important issues lists.
UNIQUE_PEOPLES
(Defending natural rights of traditional tribal peoples and minorities)
(also various lists for specific tribal peoples -
e.g: http://www.ogiek.org or http://www.madhibaan.org
)
NATURAL_FORESTS (naturalforest@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of the old-growth or other natural forests and its
peoples)
DIVERSE_LIFE (diverselife@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of species of wild fauna and flora)
BRIGHT_FUTURE (brightfuture@ecoterra.net
)
(Trackmaps for our common future)
CLEAN_SKY (cleansky@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of the atmosphere)
NATURAL_SEAS (naturalseas@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of the marine biosphere)
DIVERSE_LANDS (diverselands@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of terrestrial ecosystems)
NATURAL_WATERS (naturalwaters@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of the aquatic ecosystems)
NATURAL_GENES (naturalgenes@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection against genetically modified organisms)
NATURAL_HEALTH (naturalhealth@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of human health)
TRAVELnCARE (travelncare@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of free voyage and caring visit)
NATURAL_DEFENCE (naturaldefence@ecoterra.net
)
(Protection of our values, our and our childrens heritage and future)
WILD_ROAR (wildroar@ecoterra.net
)
(ECOTERRAs ALERT BULLETIN)
FSM - FULL_SCOPE_MEDIA © (fsm@ecoterra.net
)
Free thinking, non-conforming investigative reporting and press
releases.
(hot news, investigative reporting, features & press releases you
hardly
ever get from the mainstream media - English, German or French
listserve)
WTN - WILD_TIMES_NEWS © (wtn@ecoterra.net
)
- the hardcopy for people without internet access /
in English and in vernacular languages (postal address required)
YOUR IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANY LIST AND TO WTN ARE MOST WELCOME!
Please send your genuine contributions to listserveditor@ecoterra.net
. However, proselytising propaganda screeds will not be posted. To
subscribe or unsubscribe just send a mail to WILDNET < listmanager@ecoterra.net
and specify the list name! Thanks!
N.B.: For security reasons no mails from ECOTERRA are ever sent
to this mailing lists with attachments. If you happen to receive a
message with an e-mail attachment, please be aware that our sender
address might have been spoofed and we advise you to just delete that
mail without opening the attachment. If you suddenly don't receive
mails from the usual list anymore, but didn't unsubscribe, your
mailbox or your ISP might have been tempered with by (hidden)
censorship - please let us know and re-subscribe ! Avoid to have your
address with ISPs, who are on the list of fraudulent and/or notorious
mail interceptors like aol, yahoo, msn, hotmail, gmx etc. Ad-mails are
terrible, but don't use ISP- or webbased filters, since you never know
their criteria. Stay in control and install the anti-virus, anti-spam
and firewall yourself, which are unfortunately necessary in these
days, maintain it yourself on your system !
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To
ensure delivery of your mails, please add "@ecoterra.net" to
your address book and "whitelist" of your spamfilter, and
tell your ISP or company's IT group to allow this address to pass
through any filtering software they may have set up. If our emails
don't reach your inbox, also look in your "Bulk Mail" or
"Junk Mail" folder. If you write to us and you don't receive
a response within two working days, please send your mail again - it
most likely was intercepted or got lost on the way. Try as much as
possible to use encryptred mail (PGP or Steganos). Sorry, we have to
keep a rather strict unsubscription policy, if your mail bounces
several times. Please resubscribe, if you suddenly don't receive your
mails.
DO YOU NEED AN ECO-STRAIGHTLINER ?
Please contact highly qualified scientists (ecologists, marine
biologists etc.),
lawyers, specialists and environmental experts or investigative
journalists
with proven track record of not being lured or bullied by corporate or
governmental money via human-resources*at*ecoterra.net
These are all no-nonsense people with vast experience.
Ask for the support of an ECO-Volunteer: ecovolunteers@eoterra.net
or become one yourself.
What you always wanted to know - check it out at:
ECO-PORTAL: < http://www.EnvironmentalSustainability.info/
>
FOREST CONSERVATION PORTAL < http://forests.org/
>
CLIMATE CHANGE PORTAL < http://www.ClimateArk.org/
< http://forests.org/ >>
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION PORTAL < http://earthtrends.wri.org/
>
WATER CONSERVATION PORTAL < http://www.WaterConserve.info/
< http://forests.org/ >>
Eldis Gateway to DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION < http://www.eldis.org/
>
! CAVEAT LECTOR !
*** *NOTICE*: This email and any files or attachments transmitted
with it may be confidential and/or privileged. The information is
intended solely for the use of the individual, entity, group or list
to
whom it is addressed, except if earmarked for widest distribution.
Please see also our disclaimer and copyright rules at
http://www.ecoterra.org.uk/seite_discl_d_e.htm
Unless other sources are quoted or other indications given:
© means: Copyright © ECOTERRA Intl. 2004 - all rights
reserved
CPL CopyLeft means copyright except for non-profit making
individuals / initiatives / organizations, if used to positively
portray what it wants to achieve, not misquoted and the source is
credited. If you are not sure what it originally was set out to
promote you must ask the author or creator first. This means that you
can use it (graphics, articles etc.), if you are not making money out
of it, do not have the intention of doing so and support the cause. If
you don't you must get permission from the author to use it. Please
send us a copy of your publication. Unless otherwise stated by the
author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and
rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the
contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the ECOTERRA Intl.
collective. All contents is published under the Open Content License
< http://opencontent.org/
>, if nothing else is mentioned, but some rights are reserved under
the Creative Commons Licence < http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/2.0/
>.
ACR Anti-Copyright* means use freely for whatever you want it. It
comes from the perspective that copyright should not exist at all or
that there is no need to copyright the information / image as we wish
it to be distributed freely and reused in whatever way.
|