A coalition of leading environmental pressure groups in Nigeria who met recently in Abuja to study the development initiative of US billionaire Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), land grabs and non-ecological agriculture have recommended that Africa should not be a dumping ground for unverified technologies such as genetically modified crops.
Participants drawn from around the continent rose in unison to declare the need to build knowledge and resistance to land grabs on the continent and other non-ecological agriculture that threaten African agriculture and food sovereignty.
In his presentation, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) Executive Director, Mr. Nnimmo Bassey argued that AGRA, GMO and the agrofuels initiatives promoted by big agribusinesses only aim to erode Africa's traditional systems of farming and contamination of indigenous seeds in favour of engineered varieties.
In a communiqué the group noted that the convergence of all the agricultural initiatives of the biotechnology industry and their allies in the donor-driven research institutions towards Africa is targeted at re-colonizing the continent and entrenching hunger by undermining its food sovereignty.
Participants observed that enormous tracts of land on the African continent have been taken over by trans-nationals for agribusinesses, governments and individuals interested only in profits and not in the interest of smallholders' livelihoods.
Other key issues raised during the four-day summit include the fact that agricultural systems proposed by most donor/transnational agencies and implemented by African governments have so far proven to be unsustainable and not pro-farmers. In the same way, discretionary powers on land vested on national governments in Africa have facilitated expropriation of community lands and retarded the growth of agriculture
The communiqué in parts noted that "a new form of colonialism driven by agribusinesses has been unleashed on the African continent that threatens livelihoods, ecological balance and portends new forms of resource conflicts on the continent.
"There is low public awareness on AGRA/GMO/Agrofuels and other initiatives promoted by the global North. Although AGRA claims they seek to support smallholder farmers, their supporters are incessantly pushing for the deployment of genetically modified crops into Africa.
"GMOs have failed to produce promised results such as higher yields, producing more nutritious crops and reduction of chemical inputs, including herbicides
"Up to 80 per cent of GMOs currently produced in the world are destined for animal feeds, not to fight hunger and malnutrition. Also the use of GMOs implies the use of a lot of agrochemicals which contaminate our food, lands, water and peoples.
Also observed by the environmental groups was that African governments have failed to sufficiently fund farmers and indigenous solutions to boost farm yields. Instead, they hobnob with neo-liberal research institutions that promote alien solutions to traditional African problems
"Agrofuel are false solution to climate change and are neither climate- friendly nor are they replacement for fossil fuels.
"Women are marginalized on issues of land rights in virtually all parts of Africa and have been left out in key policy formulation and decision- making
Ahead efforts to redress the some of the identified anomalies, the environmental groups recommended among other things that there is urgent need for public debate/awareness on GMO/Agrofuels and AGRA; Governments in Africa must initiate, implement and sustain policies that guarantee the protection of small scale farmers and provide them subsidies and needed inputs to ensure increased food production and general food sovereignty; African governments must adequately fund local research to boost agricultural yields.
They must also shun all donor-driven funds that will not support indigenous solutions to hunger in Africa; The capacity of local scientists must be built to strengthen home-grown approaches to agriculture that is suitable for the environment and economy; and that the capacity of communities, journalists and food advocacy groups must be strengthened to enable them adequately play their roles as watchdog in the society. The media must be allowed unfettered access to information through initiation of laws that will guarantee freedom of information.
Other recommendation include that there must be transparency in government dealings on biotechnology industry with citizens; Laws on land policy on the continent must be reviewed to eliminate all forms of diplomatic immunity or unnecessary privilege conferred on investors in community lands; Adoption of eco-friendly solutions that have proven far cheaper than so-called GM solutions that have only impoverished farmers and robbed them of livelihoods as verified cases in parts of Africa have shown
The groups also demanded that African governments take adequate steps to protect local farmers and the entirety of Africans from unhelpful schemes that have created hunger and food shortages on the continent. Over 27 environmental pressure groups singed the communiqué at the end of the summit.
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