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2009-03-16 | permalink
Nigerian environmentalists call for end to GM cassava trials
Friends of the Earth Nigeria/Environmental Rights Action [...] and over 30 local civil society groups have called for an immediate end to the trials, to be conducted by the National Root Crops Research Institute with the reported approval of the National Biosafety Committee – a body that currently has no legal power to grant such an approval. In addition to its concerns about the effects on biodiversity and human health of GM crops, FoEN says that Nigerian food security lies in building the capacity of its farmers, not in GM foods.
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2009-03-16 | permalink
Nigerian environmentalists call for end to GM cassava trials
Friends of the Earth Nigeria/Environmental Rights Action [...] and over 30 local civil society groups have called for an immediate end to the trials, to be conducted by the National Root Crops Research Institute with the reported approval of the National Biosafety Committee – a body that currently has no legal power to grant such an approval. In addition to its concerns about the effects on biodiversity and human health of GM crops, FoEN says that Nigerian food security lies in building the capacity of its farmers, not in GM foods.
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