Ghana: GMOs - Whose Interests Does Prof. Alhassan Represent?

19 February 2015
analysis

Prof. Alhassan was been quoted as dismissing anti-GMO groups because, according to him, they allegedly do not have any scientific proof or knowledge to offer when it comes GMO technology. But he is wrong.

Food Sovereignty Ghana is shocked by the pronouncements of Prof. Walter Sandow Alhassan urging farmers to reject warnings from anti-GMO groups telling us that accepting GMOs will result in "seed colonisation and seed slavery". [Alhssan is the former Director General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Ghana (CSIR). He spoke at a workshop on the topic "GMOs the truth and misconceptions", organized by the Ghana Chapter of the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB) in collaboration with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) and (CSIR).

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