GMO: Stakeholders demand ban, raise health, food security concerns

File photo: A hospital in Lagos.
File photo: A hospital in Lagos. Photo: FrankvEck / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

By Gabriel Ewepu and Cynthia Alo A coalition of scientists, farmers, environmentalists, nutritionists and civil society organisations has called on the Lagos State House of Assembly to ban…

By Gabriel Ewepu and Cynthia Alo A coalition of scientists, farmers, environmentalists, nutritionists and civil society organisations has called on the Lagos State House of Assembly to ban genetically modified organisms, GMOs, in the state, warning of potential threats to public health, biodiversity, farmers’ livelihoods and food sovereignty. The coalition, under the GMO-Free Nigeria…

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