{"id":3590,"date":"2014-03-04T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2014-03-04T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:27:38","slug":"group-to-demonstrate-on-march-6-against-gmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"Group to demonstrate on March 6 against GMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gmo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3592\" alt=\"gmo\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gmo.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>The Coalition for Farmers Rights and Advocacy against GMOs (COFAM)) has served notice of marking Ghana\u2019s 57th Independence with a demonstration in Accra against attempts to introduce Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) into the country\u2019s food chain.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration which is scheduled for March 6 is expected to draw massive support against the introduction of GMO\u2019s into the nation\u2019s food chain.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Coalition, Ernesto Yeboah in an interview with Citi News called on Ghanaians to join the party to resist the move.<\/p>\n<p>The intended demonstration aimed at consolidating a similar crusade COFAM which is a combination of grass-roots movement of farmers, labour unions, religious, political and civil society organizations.<\/p>\n<p>COFAM in Accra on Tuesday January 28 held a public demonstration against attempts to introduce Genetically Modified Foods and the Plant Breeders Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Conveners of the COFAM include the Food Sovereignty Ghana, Convention Peoples Party, Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (CIKOD), The General Agricultural Workers Union of TUC and the Rastafarian Council.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition for Farmers Rights and Advocacy against GMOs (COFAM)) has served notice of marking Ghana\u2019s 57th Independence with a demonstration in Accra against attempts to introduce Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) into the country\u2019s food chain. The demonstration which is scheduled for March 6 is expected to draw massive support against the introduction of GMO\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}