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Home > ZAMBIA: Scramble for non-GM stock to feed refugees

Contributor [1]
Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 02:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
88 [3]
Article-Summary: 

A government ban on genetically-modified (GM) foods has resulted in a scramble to source stock to feed the thousands of refugees camped in Zambia. The World Food Programme (WFP) was forced to distribute US-donated milled GM maize to refugees in the first week of November, as the government ban was announced on 29 October, giving the agency little time to source non-GM food.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/11393 [5]
Country: 
Zambia [6]

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