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Casamance River’s Native Rice Bonds Sacred Traditions

Anonyme, Friday, April 30, 2004 - 02:36
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African red rice (Oryza glabberima) is adapted to the region of the Casamance River in Senegal and other river deltas. Imported corporate agribusiness Asian rice could be introducing GE/GMO strains into the region's people and ecosystem, also driving the local farmers out of the market. This report deals with the problems of assimilation into both religious and WTO corporate monoculture, and encourages the survival of animist traditions that view native African rice as sacred..

 
The following info is for public domain, please distribute freely with intent to save native African rice from GE/GMO monoculture..

Casamance River’s Native Rice Bonds Sacred Traditions
Mark Miller

Senegal has many diverse ethnic groups who are still attempting to maintain their animist (pagan) and rice with palm agroforestry farming traditions in the face of an Islamic government and WTO-controlled global food corporation monoculture. The term “pagan


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Author: 
 simms
Date: 
 Fri, 2004-04-30 16:12

validated after corrections, formatting, reclassification .. very interesting article, btw

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