By Sustainable Pulse The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) has welcomed the decision of the South African biosafety authorities, rejecting Monsanto’s application for the commercial release of its GM drought tolerant triple stacked maize: MON 87460 x MON 89034 x NK 603. At its meeting on the 2nd…
By Matt Agorist A state-sponsored forced sterilization on a massive scale has allegedly taken place in Africa according to opposition leaders and the public who are railing against the government. An industrial pharmaceutical laboratory has since had its license suspended by the Kenya Accreditation Service as…
By Catherine J. Frompovich The Roman Catholic Church has strict rules and unyielding dogma regarding religious beliefs and congregants practices but, unfortunately, seems to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye and subscribes to “going along to get along” especially regarding the pseudosciences regarding…
By Lauren Stralo, Lehigh University Coffee represents a multi-hundred-billion dollar industry, consumed almost entirely by industrialized nations while being cultivated, harvested and exported by the world’s poorer nations. And although there has been recent attention to Fair Trade coffee—which brings more economic benefits to growers—Fair…
By Christina England, BA Hons In 2014, a report published by UNICEF revealed that, due to an outbreak of polio in Kenya, the charity had decided it was time to step up their efforts to contain the disease. According to their reports, the most effective…
By Alex Pietrowski Of the many concerns surrounding the dominance of agrichemicals companies and GMO foods, the most frightening dimension is that corporate manufactured seed is wiping out global biodiversity in food crops and creating a punitive legal framework for our total dependence on these…
By Catherine J. Frompovich My dear next door townhouse neighbors are an Indian couple; the husband was raised in Zambia, Africa. His parents still live there. The other evening while having a neighborly chat off our respective back patios, he told me about the snowfall…
By Amando Flavio n many countries in Africa, it is very common to find villages and towns not connected to the national electricity grid. Such towns and villages have no choice than to depend on kerosene-powered lamps. In such areas, people’s lives are restricted. They…
By Amando Flavio In Africa, electricity is a big challenge for many countries. Governments on the continent are struggling to supply electricity to its growing population. In 2011, the International Energy Agency estimated that about 600 million people in Africa are living without electricity. This…
By Christina Sarich Monsanto has been trying to take over Africa’s cotton for decades with their patented, genetically modified (GM) seed. Not without irony, Burkina Faso is just one of the African countries that has been wary of any of Monsanto’s GM seed, adding to the credo,…
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