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IRRI’s hybrid rice, designed for profit after all |
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Written by MASIPAG Information Unit
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Monday, 24 August 2009 |
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In a joint statement four organizations based in the Philippines lambasted the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as it backtracked from its promise that its hybrid rice varieties will be in public domain. IRRI instead, has formed Hybrid Rice Research and Development Consortium, the body that would ensure royalties and profits from its patented varieties to be used by farmers all over the world. In the Philippines , IRRI and Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has forged an agreement of partnership sharing and licensing hybrid varieties to be used in Philippine agriculture, a step of further exploitation to rice farmers by extracting profit from the varieties. |
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CRITIQUE & POSITION TO THE DRAFT ORGANIC AGRICULTURE BILL |
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Written by MASIPAG Information Unit
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 |
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Various bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate are being proposed to promote and create a law on organic agriculture in the country. In May this year, the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards conducted a series of multi-sectoral consulations to solicit opinions and comments on the proposed law.
Below is MASIPAG's position paper submitted to BAFPS and will circulate among the congressmen and Senators to lobby for a more farmer-centered organic agriculture system to achieve food security. We, the Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG), welcome the timely crafting of a proposed Organic Agriculture bill. MASIPAG, a nation-wide farmer-scientist network with over two decades of experience in organic agriculture in the Philippines, believes that organic agriculture can truly feed the world if governments support the real needs of resource-poor farmers for they constitute the majority in the agriculture sector and are the stewards of our land, our food and environment. |
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Negrenses divided on GMO issue |
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Written by Sun.Star Bacolod
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Monday, 27 July 2009 |
NEGROS Occidental Provincial Board member Patrick Lacson said Friday that the controversial GMO ordinance of the province has divided the people of Negros and “created a lot of confusion and chaos.”
“It is my wish and dream that we realize the province to be fully organic but do we impose this on the people or encourage them first. Even before forcing or coercing people to accept this idea, I think we need to start first on educating them,” Lacson said.
On the second day of the en banc marathon hearing on the controversial anti-genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ordinance, invited resource speakers stood firm on the need for Negros Occidental to stay Ordinance 7, which calls for the total ban of living and non-living GMOs.
Charito Medina, national coordinator of Masipag, a non-government organization working for empowerment of small farmers, stressed the need to ban GMOs, particularly BT corn, soya beans and rice, if the province is serious about calling itself an organic bowl, adding that the planting and entry of GMO defeats the purpose. |
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