September 4, 2024 / 5PM PST / 3PM BST / 10AM WAT / 11AM SAT / 12PM EAT
Organised by the Global People’s Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice with the Stop Golden Rice Network, People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty, PAN Asia Pacific, and Asian Peasant Coalition.
Registration link: bit.ly/GPCvsGMOs
Decades since the introduction of genetically modified crops, they continue to be rejected by farmers and consumers alike. Yet, backed by philanthro capitalist-funded ‘research’ institutions, a few corporations who dominate the seed and agrochemical industry persist in selling these hazardous technologies. Often, in the guise of addressing malnutrition or the climate crisis.
This study session via webinar aims to facilitate learning from the experiences of peasant movements and advocacy groups in their campaigns against GMOs in food and agriculture. The session will focus on understanding grassroots strategies, with particular emphasis on the successful Philippine experience in halting the commercialization of GM Golden Rice.
Speakers will share their knowledge, tactics, and lessons learned in rejecting GMOs on their fields and plates. To inform future strategies, there will also be input on gene-edited crops, considered as the second wave of biotech crops that are increasingly being adopted worldwide despite lack of adequate regulation. An open forum will also take place to give participants the space to share their efforts, best practices, and challenges in campaigning against GMOs.
This webinar is designed as a collaborative learning space, encouraging participants to engage with speakers, ask questions, and discuss how these experiences can inform and strengthen their own local, regional or global efforts. By examining diverse approaches from different contexts, participants will gain valuable insights into protecting health, livelihoods and biodiversity against GMO harms; and advancing people’s food sovereignty.
MEET THE SPEAKERS!
The PH Campaign to Stop Golden Rice | Eliseo Ruzol Jr., Stop Golden Rice Network – Philippines
Global update on GM and biotech development | Afsar Jafri, GRAIN
Bangladesh Golden Rice campaign | Pavel Partha, Bangladesh Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge (Barcik)
Agroecology not GMOs will feed Africa | Hakim Baliraine, ESAFF
GM Free India movement | Usha Soolapani, Thanal Trust
Synthesis | Fatima Burnad, Asian Peasant Coalition
