First GMO seed scandal in Africa: South Africa contaminates the continent
Seed maize from South Africa, claiming to be pure, has been found to be contaminated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The South African branch of US seed giant Pioneer Hi-Bred recently exported contaminated maize seeds to unsuspecting Kenyan farmers. [Lire]
African Centre for Biosafety - 29 February 2008

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Contaminated U.S. Rice Must Be Recalled From Africa
Friends of the Earth Africa and the African Center for Biosafety are today urging African countries to monitor US rice imports and to recall all shipments contaminated with GM rice known as LibertyLink601 (LL601). This call follows the confirmation of the presence of the illegal variety LL601 in food aid and commercial imports of rice from the US in Ghana and Sierra Leone. [Lire]
Environmental Rights Action (ERA/FoEI) - African Centre for Biosafety - 25 November 2006

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No Gateway to Africa’s Sorghum
The African Centre for Biosafety, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, applauds the decision by the South African GM regulatory body to turn down an application by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to conduct laboratory and greenhouse experiments with transgenic sorghum in South Africa. The Executive Council (EC) established in terms of South Africa’s GMO Act, refused the application on biosafety grounds, fearing that GM sorghum will lead to the destruction of the sorghum varieties prevalent throughout Africa. [Lire]
African Centre for Biosafety - 10 July 2006

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Groups in Africa, Latin America condemn World Bank biosafety projects
The World Bank is set to secure funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for two projects that will undermine public debate and aggressively drive GM crops into the heart of peasant agriculture. The two projects, one in West Africa and the other in Latin America, will hasten the spread of GM crops into farmer seed systems and even into certain centres of origin. [Lire]
GRAIN - Genetic Ressources Action International - African Centre for Biosafety - 26 June 2006

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Ten Years of Genetically Modified Crops Fail to Deliver Benefits to Africa
Ten years after the first significant planting of Genetically Modified (GM) crops there are no apparent benefits for consumers, farmers or the environment, and despite renewed promises by biotech corporations, there has been no impact on hunger and poverty, according to a report by the African Center for Biosafety and Friends of the Earth International. [Lire]
Environmental Rights Action (ERA/FoEI) - African Centre for Biosafety - 10 January 2006

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Déclaration de Nairobi sur les OGM dans l’agriculture africaine
A l’occasion du Séminaire de stratégie de la société civile sur les OGM dans l’agriculture africaine
Nous, soussignés, membres d’un grand nombre d’organisations de la société civile, nourries du même esprit, représentant des organisations d’agriculteurs, de consommateurs et d’acteurs environnementaux, venus de dix-neuf pays africains et soutenus par quatre pays non africains, nous sommes réunis les 27, 28 et 29 septembre 2005 à Nairobi (Kenya), pour un séminaire d’élaboration et d’adoption de stratégies sur les Organismes Génétiquement Modifiés (OGM) dans l’agriculture africaine. Nous référant aux débats du séminaire, déclarons ce qui suit. [Lire]
GRAIN - Genetic Ressources Action International - 1er décembre 2005

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Ecowas, Stop GMOs Now
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) should not accept unhealthy propagandas of biotech industries bent on using Africa as a dumping ground for Genetically Modified (GM) crops, the Friends of the Earth Africa Action (FoE, Africa), has advised. [Lire]
Environmental Rights Action (ERA/FoEI) - 1 July 2005

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Statement by civil-society on biotech ECOWAS conference
Statement of peasants’ organisations, consumers’ associations, the Mali Coalition for the Protection of Genetic Heritage and the Francophone African Coalition for the Protection of Genetic Heritage. [Lire]
24 June 2005

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FoE-Africa/TWN conference on GMOS and Africa
Resolution adopted at the FoE-Africa/TWN conference on GMOS and Africa, 21-23 March 2005, Lagos, Nigeria. [Lire]
Third World Network Africa - FoE-Africa - 24 April 2005

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GMOs will not solve hunger, but will make it worse
A coalition of international mainstream environmental, consumer and farmer groups today condemned the aggressive promotion of GMOs as a solution to hunger in the world. [Lire]
16 July 2004

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