By Ali-Masmadi | October 9, 2014 at 2:01 pm | No comments
Governments in industrial countries regularly put pressure on developing countries to introduce stringent plant variety protection (PVP) regimes and to adhere to the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention, without duly considering its consequences on the enjoyment of human rights...
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By Ali-Masmadi | September 21, 2014 at 5:57 pm | No comments
Call of G7/G8 Civil Society Organizations to their Governments on the
New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa
More than two years after the launch of the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, what we have seen of its ‘progress’ does not change...
Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, Networking, News, OUR CAMPAIGNS, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives, Uncategorized
By Kweku Dadzie | September 10, 2014 at 5:06 pm | No comments
By Isaac Dadzie
If things go on well according to plan, over 300 delegates from around the world will gather at the Accra International Conference Centre on the 27th and 28th of October this year to deliberate on critical areas of interest relating to the development and...
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By admin | June 2, 2014 at 2:54 am | No comments
By Food Sovereignty Ghana, May 29, 2014
Dr. Vandana Shiva is embarking on a three-nation tour in Africa of which we are most fortunate to be included. The tour will take Dr. Shiva to Zimbabawe, then to Ghana, and end in Tanzania. Dr. Shiva will arrive in Ghana in the evening of...
Posted in: Africa, Ghana, International Solidarity, Networking, News, OUR CAMPAIGNS, Self-Mobilisation, Situational Awareness, Tanzania, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives, Zimbabwe
By admin | May 9, 2014 at 2:21 pm | One comment
Economic Justice Network - Ghana
POLICY BRIEF
ECOWAS EPA AND WTO-COMPATIBILITY
Introduction
People-including government officials, European Union (EU) representatives and some think tanks say that Ghana has no choice other than sign the regional Economic Partnership...
Posted in: Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, International Solidarity, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Networking, News, Nigeria, OUR CAMPAIGNS, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives, Togo
By admin | May 4, 2014 at 5:23 pm | No comments
by Joeva Rock
Recent reports on climate change have continuously stressed the unequal burden small states experience in comparison to their relatively low energy consumption. For many developing and low-income nations, this imbalanced and undue drain is the continuance of...
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By Nana Akyea Mensah | February 20, 2014 at 11:28 am | No comments
Organizations from Africa and around the world petition Ghana's Parliament on the Plant Breeder's Bill...
20th February 2014
Rt. Hon. Speaker of the House, Edward Korbly Doe Adjaho,
The Hon. Chairperson, Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs,...
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By Ali-Masmadi | August 15, 2013 at 4:31 pm | No comments
AFSA
Press Release 15th August 2013
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Africa’s Food Sovereignty Under Attack By Corporate Interests
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of pan-African networks, with...
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By Nana Akyea Mensah | August 9, 2013 at 10:11 pm | No comments
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) will next week meet in Ethiopia to discuss strategies for resistance against genetically modified (GM) seeds.
AFSA is a Pan African platform comprising networks and farmer organisations working in Africa including...
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By Nana Akyea Mensah | June 20, 2013 at 11:15 am | No comments
"Ghana must urgently place a moratorium on the cultivation, importation and consumption of genetically modified foods." The call is contained in an appeal by Food Sovereignty Ghana, a Ghanaian grass-roots food advocacy movement, after credible reports of the start of...
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