Treaty: Plant Genetic Resources For Food

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How ideal for Monsanto.

100 countries ratify treaty on plant genetic resources for food: FAO

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/05/content_4512649.htm

ROME, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Iran has ratified the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, bringing the number of countries that have officially accepted the treaty to 100, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced here on Friday.

The treaty, which was approved by the FAO Conference in November 2001, came into force on June 29, 2004.

The FAO's Director-General Dr.Jacques Diouf said that "this is a legally binding treaty that will be crucial for the sustainability of agriculture. The treaty is an important contribution to the achievement of the World Food Summit's major objective of halving the number of hungry people by 2015."

The main objectives of the international treaty are the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of their use, in harmony with the Convention on Biological Diversity, for sustainable agriculture and food security.

According to Clive Stannard of the Interim Secretariat for the Treaty, "this record speed and level of ratification is an indication of the huge importance that countries attach to the objectives of the Treaty to ensure that plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, which are vital for human survival, are conserved and sustainably used and that benefits are equitably andfairly distributed."

The first session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will take place in Madrid, Spain, from June 12 to June 16. This will bethe first occasion in which the contracting parties to the treaty will meet to discuss its implementation. Enditem

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knowthis said:

The treaty is an important contribution to the achievement of the World Food Summit's major objective of halving the number of hungry people by 2015.

Thats a pretty open statement, I'd really like to know exactly what
this means, will they be feeding all those hungry or just getting rid of them?

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For one.....HUNGER is engineered.

There is PLENTY of (even non GMO) food in the world. The problem is distribution and the problem of western markets using foreign land as CASH CROPS instead of letting those in the aforementioned nations to "grow their own".

This is just more command-and-control.


GM foods aare total crap and PROVEN detrimental to health.

Theses assholes want to GENETICALLY MODIFY and dumb us all down.


THE MONSANTO FILES:

www.voteyeson27.com/monsanto.htm


Good thing England gave Monsanto GMOs a big middle finger.

The USA needs to do the same thing.

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Thats a pretty open statement, I'd really like to know exactly what
this means, will they be feeding all those hungry or just getting rid of them?

I thought the same fucking thing when I read that. Dead people aren't hungry. Those "undesirables", those "useless eaters". It's cheaper to kill than to feed.

GM foods aare total crap and PROVEN detrimental to health.

Theses assholes want to GENETICALLY MODIFY and dumb us all down.


THE MONSANTO FILES:

When I watched The Corporation the other day I found out that Agent Orange was a Monsanto creation. I didn’t know that. What a track record this company has. Now they want to control our food supply. How do we know these terrible GM crops won't alter our own personal genetics for the worse? Maybe they're using them to make us sterile so we can't reproduce? That would be another way to reduce the population.

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GM soy for example is a motherfucker!

GM Soy Found To Kill Rats - Russian Study

On October 10 2005, during the symposium over genetic modification, organized by the Russian National Association for Genetic Security (NAGS), Doctor of Biology Irina Ermakova made public the results of research led by her at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). This is the first research that determined clear dependence between eating genetically modified soy and the posterity of living creatures.

The death rate the offspring of rats fed GM soy is alarming, to say the least. Why have most Western countries - USA in the lead - approved the stuff for human consumption?

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www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=176007&src=0

With cereal production dropping, 39 countries face food crisis, UN reports

With world cereal production forecast to decrease slightly in 2006, 39 countries are in need of external food aid, the majority of them in drought-stricken affected and chronically food-short southern and eastern Africa, according to the latest United Nations update of the situation.

The report, released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), warns that if global cereal use in 2006/2007 remains close to recent trends it will exceed the current forecast for production, which could lead to a drawdown of global cereal stocks for the second consecutive year.

In Africa, 24 countries are currently in need of aid, largely due to adverse weather, conflict and economic crisis. In east Africa, recent rains have somewhat eased drought in pastoral areas of Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti, but nearly 8 million people are still suffering from the effects. When the chronically vulnerable populations in these countries are included, the number of those at risk from hunger jumps to 16 million.

In southern Africa, the difficult food situation of some 12 million people has eased with the current good 2006 cereal harvest and food aid distributions.

In western Africa, the 2005/2006 cereal crop is estimated at above average levels but in countries bordering the Sahara, despite a recovery from last year’s drought and locust-affected harvest, a combination of low incomes, high debts and relatively high prices is limiting access to food by many households and malnutrition rates remain alarmingly high in numerous areas.

In Asia, the outlook has deteriorated in India but is positive among other main producers in the region. Emergency aid is needed in Mongolia and Timor-Leste following sharply reduced cereal production in 2005/2006.

Substantial amounts of food assistance are also required for chronically vulnerable populations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Bangladesh in spite of overall improved food supply, as well as for those affected by civil strife in Afghanistan, Iraq and Nepal. Protracted aid also continues to be needed for victims of the 2004 tsunami in southern Asia and last October’s earthquake in Pakistan.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, wheat output is anticipated to be substantially up in Mexico. Sharply reduced maize is forecast in Argentina, but production will recover in Brazil. But Brazil’s rice crop is expected to be well below the record level of 2005. In Paraguay, the soybean crop will again be sharply reduced by dry weather.

Wheat output is expected to decrease in 2006 reflecting smaller crops in the United States, Russia and Ukraine, due to adverse weather. Production of coarse grains is tentatively forecast to decline, mostly as a result of reduced plantings anticipated in the United States. Rice output may increase as very early prospects are favourable, according to the FAO report.