Farmers in Bangladesh are facing serious problems during this time of crisis. Citizens are asked by the government to stay at home to avoid being infected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, farmers find it difficult to go to their farms to check on their crops. Shops including those that sell fertilizer have […]
Quezon City, Philippines, March 9, 2010 – Multinational companies like Monsanto, Syngenta, Cargil, and Bayer, are expanding their markets for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in developing countries like the Philippines. This was the warning raised by anti-GMO groups in a press conference in Quezon City yesterday, which they organized for the Filipino farmer who went […]
WHAT: Press Conference of Isidoro “Boy” Ancog, Filipino farmer who went on hunger strike at FAO Biotech Meeting to protest imposition of biotechnology, especially GMOs, on developing countries WHEN: March 8, 2010, 10:00 AM WHERE: Max’s Restaurant, Quezon Circle Filipino farmer ends hunger strike, exposes pro-GMO agenda of FAO meeting Filipino farmer, Isidoro “Boy” Ancog,” […]
Filipino farmer ends 3-day hunger strike Guadalajara, Mexico, March 4, 2010 — The Filipino farmer who went on hunger strike during the FAO biotech conference in Guadalajara, Mexico City being held on March 1-4, 2010, ended his protest action on March 4, 2010, the last day of the conference. “It’s over. I will be flying […]
BISAD Supports the Hunger Strike of Boy Ancog against GMOs at the ABDC10 in Guadalajara, Mexico The Bohol Initiators for Sustainable Agriculture and Development (BISAD) is a multi-sectoral provincial network composed of farmers’ groups, NGOs, consumers, local government offices, and business enterprises that promotes the development and spread of organic agriculture in the province of […]
Guadalajara, Mexico City, March 4, 2010 – A Filipino farmer attending a biotechnology conference organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) went on hunger strike the other day in protest of what civil society organizations perceive to be a heavy bias of the event towards the use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture. Isidoro […]
(Speech delivered by Isidoro Angoc, staff-farmer of PAKISAMA, an AFA member, during the second day of the FAO international technical conference on “Agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries: Options and opportunities in crops, forestry, livestock, fisheries and agro-industry to face the challenges of food insecurity and climate change (ABDC-10)” being held in Guadalajara, Mexico on 1-4 […]
