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Mexico’s Corn Defenders Honored with Environmental Prize

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When I arrived in Mexico City nine years ago to research the effort by citizen groups to stop multinational seed companies from planting genetically modified corn in Mexico, the groups had just won an injunction to suspend planting permits. They know maize is different.” He said with a smile, “The judge surely eats tacos. He was right.

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

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Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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