Monthly Archives: February 2009

WFP and food vouchers: a positive step for food security

February 20, 2009 – 1:43 pm

The World Food Programme (WFP) launched this week a food voucher programme in Burkina Faso.  This is an intelligent step from the WFP, as it will help strengthen the local food markets rather than creating a dependency on foreign food to meet local demand. While this is only a first step on what should become [...]

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Are GMOs the answer?

February 17, 2009 – 4:43 pm

And here they come again, genetically-modified organisms (GMOS) to the rescue!
As soon as a crisis emerges, it seems like GMOs quickly make their way in the discourse. It does not matter how many times they get shut down as false solutions, they come also to the discussion framed as a technological solution to the pressing [...]

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