2013-03-18 | permalink

FAO warns Uganda against genetically modified foods

The food and agriculture organization of the United Nations has warned Uganda against the use of genetically modified organisms to improve food production saying they impact on the environment. [...] addressing Journalists over the weekend, the director general of FAO José Graziano da Silva opposed the use of GMOs as means of increasing food production to fight hunger. “We don’t need them now, we don’t know what will happen to areas of production and the crops,” said Graziano Brazil’s extra ordinary minister of food security and fight against hunger.

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