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GM’s Impact on the Global South
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This is the third edition of Force Feeding?, our online newsletter designed to keep readers
up-to-date with GM and biotechnology issues that impact on the global South.
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FORCE FEEDING?
GM’s Impact on the Global South
Second Edition
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This is the second edition of Force Feeding?, our an on-line newsletter designed to keep
readers up to date with GM and biotechnology issues that impact on the Global South.
GM...
FORCE FEEDING
GM’s Impact on the Global South
Pilot Edition
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The number of reports, meetings, statements, research, activities and articles on genetically modified (GM, also called genetic engineering or GE) food and crops around the world...
FORCE FEEDING
GM’s Impact on the Global South
Pilot Edition
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The number of reports, meetings, statements, research, activities and articles on genetically modified (GM, also called genetic engineering or GE) food and crops around the world...
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Thanks for invitating me to your network. I am in Kenya very close to lake Victoria. I work with community groups, mainly women groups on issues affecting human population and their environment.
How about you? What do you do? I see from your profile you have rich experience working with comunities in Africa.
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the world probs can be summed up to be "competition" where many are striving for survival where it is very scarce. Unlimited wants with a limited means. Both the poor and the rich have not seized from striving.
Only few understand the principle of living above this problem. They run back to the source and find the way of living without struggle. The source is what i've been revealing to people around me as my contribution to solving the problem. The source is God. He has created all we need to rule our world in us since He created us. "Life is by design" don't miss His purpose for your life.
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Glad to read from you. of course the cameroon government allows foreign companies to invest in agro fuel.Below is a write up on this topic.
LAND GRABS FOR BIOFUELS IN CAMEROON
Bio energy production a danger to landscape-ecosystem and local livelihoods.
The term “biofuel”refers to any energy source derived from recently twing plants, animals or their bi products. For thousands of years, human have used traditional bio fuel such as wood, charcoal and dung to cook, heat and manufacturing goods.
In the early 20th century, liquid bio fuel began to be used as fuel and infact ethanol and vegetable oil were originally envisioned as the fuel source for the combustion and diesel engines. Recent dialogue around bio fuels have tended to focus on large-scale bio energy production to supply the global market for liquid fuel. Cameroon got involved in plant cultivation for bio fuels in 2007 through affiliates of companies in Europe. It started with exploratory activities carried out by some western companies on how to get palm oil from Cameroon converted into bio fuel. Huge quantities of palm oil from CDC (Cameroon Development Cooperation), SOCAPALM and HEAVECAM are being exploited for this purpose.
Later, a non-profit Association called Greenery (www.greenery-cm.org) is working in the Bui division of the North West region to promote jatropha cultivation by providing technical assistance to farmers who are being supplied with seedlings for planting. It is argued that jatropha would reduce biodiversity loss and provide jobs but it should be noted that Bui is found in Bamenda highland forest Region which host a fragile savannah vegetation suffering from over grazing, bushfires and slash and burn farming and land conflicts are high between families and tribes.
DANGERS
The fear is that agricultural land would be converted to bio fuel crop production denying the community their food sovereignty. Food crop like palm oil , corn and sugarcane are already being sold for conversion while hunger and malnutrition still reigns and relative high poverty level. Virgin forests and Biodiversity, (Cameroon is found in the Congo Basin which hosts rich tropical forest, “the lungs of the earth”) could be destroyed to give way to bio fuel plant cultivation thereby under minding the need of Environmental sustainability.
BWC calls on the Cameroon government to regulate and control bio fuel development in the country.
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