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Program

HUNGER, FOOD AID AND GMOs

Maputo, Mozambique, 15-16 July 2004

15 July, 2004

9-9:30
Opening Address: Mozambican Minister

9:30-10:50

Session I: Hunger and Food Aid

  • The role of food aid as a mechanism to cope with hunger: a global
    perspective
    Dr. Wilma Salgado, Former employee WFP in Latin America

  • The impact of food aid in farmer communities in Mozambique
    Rogerio Perreira, National Farmers Union of Mozambique (UNAC)

  • The roots of hunger and how food aid works in Zambia
    Dr. Drinah Nyirenda, Programme Against Malnutrition, Zambia

  • Tackling hunger through food aid from a donor perspective
    Representative from European Union

  • Towards ensuring Food Soverignty
    Anuradha Mittal, Director Oakland Institute, United States

10:50-11:10

Open discussion

11:10- 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 13:00

Session II: GMOs, Hunger and Food Aid

  • The debate over food aid and GMOs in Latin America (2000-2004)
    Dr. Elizabeth Bravo, Acció Ecolóica Ecuador

  • The Southern Africa controversy over GM Food aid (2002-2004). Current
    SADC developments on Hunger, food security and food aid
    Dr. Mwananyanda Mbikusita Lewanika, Chairperson of the South African
    Development Community (SADC) Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and
    Biosafety.

  • Food aid and GMOs: Africa and the consumers right to choose
    Amadou Kanoute, Director Consumers International Africa Office, Zimbabwe

  • GMOs and food aid in Western Africa
    Jeanne Zoundjihekpon, GRAIN - Action Internationale pour les Ressources
    Gééiques, Francophone Africa, Benin

  • Title to be provided by Amadou.
    Aaron de Grassi, University of Sussex

14:30 15:45


Session III: Drawbacks of the current food aid system

  • The US policy on food aid and GMOs
    Dr. Thoric Cederstrom, Counterpart International, United States

  • Problems with food aid system in Zambia and the way forward
    Dr. Drinah Nyirenda, Programme against Malnutrition, Zambia

  • Hunger and food aid in Eritrea
    Representative from a Development organization

  • Drawbacks and impacts of food aid in Latin America?
    Dr. Wilma Salgado, Former employee WFP in Latinamerica

  • The role of the churches in food aid delivery
    Representative from World Council of Churches

15:45 16:00
Coffee Break

16:00 18:00


Panel: AFRICA COPING WITH HUNGER. THE ROLE OF FOOD AID, AND GMOs

  • Is the aim of food aid to disappear or to perpetuate dependence? Will GMOs
    move Africa towards food sovereignty or increasing dependence?

  • Rogerio Perreira, Dr. Mwananyanda Mbikusita Lewanika, Jeanne Zoundjihekpon,
    Dr. Drinah Nyirenda, Mariam Mayet, Amadou Kanoute, Nnimmo Bassey

DAY 2, 16 July

9:00 10:30

Working Group Session I: Identifying main problems & challenges

  • WG 1. The food aid system: Drawbacks and Main challenges.
  • WG 2. GMOs and food aid: Identifying problems and ways to cope
    with it

10:30 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 11:30:

Reporting to Plenary by WG

11:30 14:45

Session IV: International, regional and national regulation of food aid and GMOs

  • The Food Aid Convention, Codex Alimentarius, WTO and Cartagena Protocol
    on Biosafety

  • Presenters: Representative of Consumers International, European Union,
    Third World Network

  • National and regional regulation of GMOs and food aid
    Presenters: Dr. Mulenga, Dr. Lewanika, Jeanne Zoundjihekpon, Mariam Mayet

14:45 13:00:

Open discussion

13:00 14:00

Lunch

14:00 15:30

Working group Session II: Coping with challenges at the national, regional and international level

  • WG 1. How to address the problematic in Mozambique
  • WG 2. Regional Strategies for Africa.
  • WG 3. International challenges. Policy strategies for the FAC,
    WTO, CPB, Codex, USAID.

15:30 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 16:45


Reporting to Plenary by WG

16:45 18:00


The way forward: How to work towards ending hunger, and the need of food aid in Africa?