Is there anything safe about Ghana's Biosafety Committee?

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Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 12 years ago

There is one thing I would like to add to this. It is about SABIMA and Prof. Alhassan. The SABIMA project was guided and funded by the Syngenta Foundation. that tells you how close we are to the issue of conflict of interest ...
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There is one thing I would like to add to this. It is about SABIMA and Prof. Alhassan. The SABIMA project was guided and funded by the Syngenta Foundation. that tells you how close we are to the issue of conflict of interest so far as the Biosafety Committee is concerned!

Pur'gu Saarpe! Esq.,
Secretary to The Odikro.
Beatrice Afful 12 years ago

What is all this about nonsense about GMs that they want to bring to Africa. This causes cancer, immune disorders, and allergies but how research institutes are interested in it because it brings them money for the short term ...
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What is all this about nonsense about GMs that they want to bring to Africa. This causes cancer, immune disorders, and allergies but how research institutes are interested in it because it brings them money for the short term. We need organic or agro-ecological system of farming. Thank you Food Sovereignty Ghana and God save Africa.
Beatrice Afful 12 years ago

Please let us fight against Imperialism and foreign imposition to control our food chain. Why do our leaders always want to portray themselves as fools and slaves. I like these guys- Food Sovereignty Ghana. President Mahama p ...
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Please let us fight against Imperialism and foreign imposition to control our food chain. Why do our leaders always want to portray themselves as fools and slaves. I like these guys- Food Sovereignty Ghana. President Mahama please what is happening to agriculture is bad.
Twenamawu 12 years ago

I feel sad if we sit here, saying the Ghanaian scientist should investigate qualities in GMO seeds. What do you expect will be their findings? I think that investigation is unnecessary in the first place. Simply because you o ...
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I feel sad if we sit here, saying the Ghanaian scientist should investigate qualities in GMO seeds. What do you expect will be their findings? I think that investigation is unnecessary in the first place. Simply because you only investigate things you dont know about or certain with. But I can assure everyone there is enough information on GMO. I want you to understand that case study on GMO tows similar route. Yes, first it will qualify an assessment from research,secondly it will prove significant yield in the early years, thirdly it begins to fail the farmers and finally it implication on health, then it is kicked out. This is how it happens everywhere. So then what will be new with Ghana... But remember in all of these implication someone benefits more money...
Twenamawu 12 years ago

If GMO was profitable it will never find itself in our soil, remember this technology has existed over two decades in the confines of the west but when it began to back fire they finding a niche to reap some money in the few ...
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If GMO was profitable it will never find itself in our soil, remember this technology has existed over two decades in the confines of the west but when it began to back fire they finding a niche to reap some money in the few years they have ahead to hold this technology until other alternative technology are explored.
I have so many examples why do we Ghanaian import pig feet, cow feet and the likes, tell you what they are waste where ever they are coming from. So we should be happy as if we have some gold to protect, GMO is a waste! Sad some people just trade their own people for money.
Gandalf 12 years ago

The Guardian reports: "The new alliance will lock poor farmers into buying increasingly expensive seeds – including genetically modified seeds – allow corporate monopolies in seed selling, and escalate the loss of preciou ...
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The Guardian reports: "The new alliance will lock poor farmers into buying increasingly expensive seeds – including genetically modified seeds – allow corporate monopolies in seed selling, and escalate the loss of precious genetic diversity in seeds – absolutely key in the fight against hunger. It will also open the door to genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa by stopping farmers' access to traditional local varieties and forcing them to buy private seeds." This is also the agenda of the Gates Foundation and of AGRA.
THIS STATEMENT SHOWS WHY GM FARMING WILL SOUND THE DEATH KNELL FOR SOUND AND DIVERSIFIED AGRIC IN OUR COUNTRY. LET ALL BE REMINDED THAT THESE GM SEEDS HAVE THE ABILITY TO WITHSTAND HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES LIKE ROUNDUP, ITSELF A LEADING PRODUCT OF MONSANTO, WHICH IS NOW KNOWN TO BE CARCINOGENIC AT EVEN DILUTIONS OF PARTS PER TRILLION. THAT IS MINISCULE AMOUNTS. OUR FARMERS WILL BEGIN TO DIE EARLY FROM STRANGE DISEASES. APART FROM THAT THESE DANGEROUS PESTICIDES ARE KNOWN TO PERSIST IN THE GM PLANTS AND END UP ACCUMULATING IN MAN. THIS HAS RECENTLY BEEN PROVED SCIENTIFICALLY IN AMERICA WHERE A RESEARCH SHOWED LARGE PORTIONS OF THE POPULATION HAVE HIGH AMOUNTS OF THESE PESTICIDES IN THEIR BLOOD. AGAIN WE WARN OUR POLICY MAKER-LET US BE CAREFUL......HAD I KNOWN IS ALWAYS AT LAST. IF THEY ARE INTERESTED IN RESEARCH REPORTS THAT DON'T AGREE WITH THEIR GM TRADE, ITS ALL THERE ON THE INTERNET. GOD SAVE US
Nana Oben 12 years ago

A very thought provoking article, worthy of a national debate on the airwaves, with the same, IF NOT GREATER, regularity and fervour as we do with our politics; because the future of THE AFRICAN'S SURVIVAL IS AT STAKE. You fo ...
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A very thought provoking article, worthy of a national debate on the airwaves, with the same, IF NOT GREATER, regularity and fervour as we do with our politics; because the future of THE AFRICAN'S SURVIVAL IS AT STAKE. You forgot President Obama invited President Mills and other selected African Presidents to a G-20 meeting also attended by the CEO's of the GM companies, and gave Mills some GM seeds and $75 mil. for trials in Ghana.
I often wonder if our govt. officials and Parliamentarians (a)read some of the many information on the web to educate themselves about issues before them; (b)they understand or seek clarification of what they read; (c)they still think the WHITE man has Africa's interest at heart; (d) they are so blinded by greed (sharing the $75 mil bribe) as to NOT CARE FOR THE WELFARE OF THE AFRICAN. One of the European countries ACTUALLY BURNED A TEST FIELD TO STOP THIS CANCER IN ITS TRACK. Alhassan and his GREEDY colleagues must be tried for treason and "GENOCIDE IN THE MAKING".
Sankofa 12 years ago

In the interests of transparency, the National Biosafety Committee should publish the names of its members and tell us why it is promoting GM technology in Ghana.

If they have nothing to hide why the secrecy? After all the ...
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In the interests of transparency, the National Biosafety Committee should publish the names of its members and tell us why it is promoting GM technology in Ghana.

If they have nothing to hide why the secrecy? After all they are a public body.
kofi armah 12 years ago

Prof. Alhassan is a traitor. We will resist this GM Imposition with all our might

Prof. Alhassan is a traitor. We will resist this GM Imposition with all our might
kwame tutu 12 years ago

The Guardian reports: "The new alliance will lock poor farmers into buying increasingly expensive seeds – including genetically modified seeds – allow corporate monopolies in seed selling, and escalate the loss of preciou ...
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The Guardian reports: "The new alliance will lock poor farmers into buying increasingly expensive seeds – including genetically modified seeds – allow corporate monopolies in seed selling, and escalate the loss of precious genetic diversity in seeds – absolutely key in the fight against hunger. It will also open the door to genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa by stopping farmers' access to traditional local varieties and forcing them to buy private seeds." This is also the agenda of the Gates Foundation and of AGRA.

GMO is evil 12 years ago

What global agro-industrial complex represents is a modern form of genetically modified colonialism. They are waging an all-out effort, country by country, to control the food supply, an

What global agro-industrial complex represents is a modern form of genetically modified colonialism. They are waging an all-out effort, country by country, to control the food supply, an
Kwaku afreh 12 years ago

GMO = CANCER So Fight it with all your might

GMO = CANCER So Fight it with all your might

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