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By ANURADHA MITTAL  (email the author)
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Posted  Saturday, March 21  2009 at  13:14

It is crucial, particularly in this time of poor washing amid growing hunger, that their voices be heard to ensure food sovereignty for Africa and her people.

Anuradha Mittal is the executive director of the Oakland Institute and the editor of “Voices from Africa: African Farmers & Environmentalists Speak out Against the New Green Revolution.”www.oaklandinnstitute.org

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  1. Submitted by Jellyfish
    Posted March 23, 2009 09:34 PM

    This is a wakeup call to Africa that they should be ever alert to those who would like to use Africa as a testing ground for dangerous experiments. Once GM foods contaminate or crossbreed with local crops there maybe unintended biological ecological consequences. We should be careful.

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