| | We, like minded organisations from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, US, UK, Malaysia and Malawi, meeting from 11 to 14 December 2002 in Malawi, would like to make our concerns known on the issue of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and Food Aid in Africa to our governments, donors and the public. We appreciate the intentions of the donors and governments to save the people from starvation through provision of food aid. We have observed with disbelief, however, how GMO food aid is being forced on countries facing starvation in Africa. We believe that the whole subject surrounds the issue of choice made by all people in Africa related to Food Sovereignty. Governments are obliged to fulfill the needs of its people in ways that do not infringe on the rights of its people and we have arrived at the conclusion that Genetic Engineering GE) and Food Aid run contrary to democratic principles in the following ways. |
