You may be interested in this news
http://reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-85KKTA?OpenDocument&rc=2
There was a day-long conference on best practices at WFP's headquarters in Rome.You may have seen in the news about $ 4 million worth of seeds donated by Monsanto, a company often mired in controversy due to genetically modified seeds. There's a big debate over this in Haiti Rewired.
http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/a-new-earthquake-hits-haiti?xg_source=activity
regarding Monsanto donations to Haiti agriculture.There were some accusations regarding Genetically Modified Seeds, and the implications of that. I think it has now been determined that those accusations are false, that the seeds donated by Monsanto to Haiti were NOT GM, but conventional hybrid seed.There is a trickle (dribble?) of new info to the Agriculture Cluster.
http://oneresponse.info/Disasters/Haiti/Agriculture/Pages/default.aspx
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