Ghana can’t ban GMOs Deputy Minister 10th Dec 2020 | Source: Graphic
Ghana can’t ban GMOs Deputy Minister
The government has rejected calls by some stakeholders in the agriculture sector to completely ban the production of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the country, citing food insecurity as the cause for the position.
It argued that even though agroecology was a very good method for agriculture production, which it had not lost sight of, Ghana risked encountering serious food security challenges immediately if the nation insisted on going solely by the method.
“So we have to be careful. These are ideas that we can pursue along some tangent but [for] the totality of our population, they need food and these other fast methods will also have to be used to be able to make us food secure. If we are not food secure, there can even be a war; there will not be peace in this country and at the end of the day we won’t even have time to think about agroe