by GreenPlanet.net
They called for the project "Biosafety 'and respect of certain countries in West Africa and Latin America. But there are good reasons to doubt, not least because among the partners are known biotech industry organizations. We are talking about two projects initiated by the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility (GEF English the acronym) managed by the same bank. The declared aim is to help ensure, in agriculture, protection against the risk of contamination among seeds originating and genetically modified seeds - under the Biosafety Protocol signed in Cartagena in 2000. The impression is that it actually promotes the introduction of GM crops . The partners involved in the two projects multimillionaires are: CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture , based in Colombia) and, needless to say, three known organizations for the promotion of biotech industries related to transgenic crops: CropLife , AfricaBio and Public Research and Regulation Initiative. Under the guise of scientific research trying to legitimize contamination of seeds that are the basis of 'peasant economy to create, in the end, dependency check variety industries. The West Africa regional biosafety project covers Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Togo, while objective of Latin American multi-country capacity building in biosafety are Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru. The project involves the introduction of GM seeds corn, potatoes, yucca, rice and cotton, and yet, except rice, it is plant varieties in those countries are centers of origin and biodiversity. Can understand the alarm among local civil society organizations, aware that the transgenic contamination to which we expose crops original, fundamental to the economy of rural people is an unacceptable risk, a real threat to food sovereignty and biodiversity of those paesi.Tra the first to start the attack, with an analysis Initiative on environmental and social risks that projects represent, are: the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), the Network for Latin America free from genetically modified (Ralltiir) and international environmental organizations and Grain Group projects include Etc. also " training in biosafety " promoted by the GEF and the World Bank. In practice, ignoring the indigenous and peasant organizations opposed to introducing GM varieties in the field, these will be "sent" to learn new scientific methods designed to counter the risk of contamination : "A farce of public participation in the real objective is to promote biosecurity laws that favor biotechnological industries' complaint Eva Caranza Coordination of Biodiversity in Costa Rica When it comes to Africa while the Latin American field trials specifically provides training for controlling contamination between GM and native plants. One wonders how they will prevent the wind to carry pollen from one crop to another, of course, in both cases, project developers assume that GM will continue to be introduced, and that contamination is inevitable - the scientific methods to combat it are smoke and mirrors. Silvia Ribeiro of ETC Group points out the transgenic contamination of native maize in Mexico, where it has been done to prevent it. Indeed, a law passed by the Mexican government on Biosafety was allowed to leave unpunished, Monsanto and other companies responsible for illegal contamination, so that has been dubbed "Monsanto Law". According to Grain, these projects respond clearly to a process that involves the direct participation of the countries involved, but that is part of a strategy of the Bank and the U.S. government to "harmonize" regional regulations on the introduction of GMOs: to establish rules supported the introduction of GMOs in key countries and use them as a model to impose on other states in the region through supranational bodies, so as to bypass any democratic debate and open a large single market for transnational producers of genetically modified seeds . The contempt for the views of peasant and indigenous organizations is also evident from the fact that both projects are moving only in English, not in French, one of the major languages \u200b\u200bof the African continent, either in English or Portuguese in Latin American case.
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