Today, EEDTFIP together with the RESIST Agrochemical TNCs network will participate in a public hearing called for by the House Committee on Agriculture and Food at the Batasan Complex in Quezon City.
The hearing will tackle Rep. Mark Cojuangco’s privilege speech which claimed that there is a “shortage of BT Corn seeds in the country.”
Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya’s research output “Socio-Economic Impact of Transgenic Corn on Peasants and Lumad Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao” will be submitted during the Committee hearing.
An EEDTFIP partner, SIBAT presented the paper during the Roundtable Discussion on the Impact of Agricultural Modernization on the Food Security of Indigenous Peoples held on May 2007 at Southern Christian College in Cotabato.
The research, conducted in cooperation with Center for Lumad Advancement, notes that B’laan farming households, faced with problems of chronic indebtedness and dwindling crop biodiversity, are now at risk on eating GE Bt-corn grits during these times, raising concerns over food safety and biological contamination. #
