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Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 6:06 PM
Subject: African countries urged to say no to GMOs


*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.../

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