Africa Harvest Biotechnology Foundation International - Revision history

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not a grant-making foundation

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 *[[University of California, Berkeley]]
 *[[University of Pretoria]]
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 :The biotech outreach thrust shifted from workshops with the media, scientists and the general public to developing more innovative media platforms targeted to key decision-makers. From a highly-visible strategy, Africa Harvest shifted to “enabling” the most credible individuals and organizations to speak for the technology; this meant forging stronger relationships with national agricultural research institutes (NARIs), relevant government ministries and universities.<ref>[http://africaharvest.org/files/Annual%20Report%202007_Complete.pdf Annual Technical & Finance Report 2007], Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International, 2007, pp. 21, accessed 14 Sept 2009</ref>
-AHBFI's Biotechnology Outreach Strategy is supported by [[CropLife International]]<ref>[http://africaharvest.org/files/Annual%20Report%202007_Complete.pdf Annual Technical & Finance Report 2007], Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International, 2007, pp. 21, 31, accessed 14 Sept 2009</ref> - an organisation led by companies such as [[BASF]], [[Bayer]], [[Dow Chemical|Dow]], [[DuPont]], [[Monsanto]], and [[Syngenta]].
+AHBFI's Biotechnology Outreach Strategy is supported by [[CropLife International]] - an organisation led by companies such as [[BASF]], [[Bayer]], [[Dow Chemical|Dow]], [[DuPont]], [[Monsanto]], and [[Syngenta]]. Other supporters of the Strategy are the Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) Project and [[USAID]].<ref>[http://africaharvest.org/files/Annual%20Report%202007_Complete.pdf Annual Technical & Finance Report 2007], Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International, 2007, pp. 21, 31, accessed 14 Sept 2009</ref>
 Africa Harvest's website in 2007 stated about the organization's Communication for Development Program:

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 See [[Florence Wambugu]]
-In January, 2002, the Monsanto-trained scientist [[Florence Wambugu]] established her own biotechnology foundation, becoming Chief Executive of [[Africa Harvest Biotechnology Foundation International]] (AHFBI), usually called Africa Harvest for short. AHBFI's Communication for Development Program is supported by [[CropLife International]]<ref>[http://africaharvest.org/files/Annual%20Report%202007_Complete.pdf Annual Technical & Finance Report 2007], Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International, 2007, p. 31, accessed 14 Sept 2009</ref> - an organisation led by companies such as [[BASF]], [[Bayer]], [[Dow Chemical|Dow]], [[DuPont]], [[Monsanto]], and [[Syngenta]].
+In January, 2002, the Monsanto-trained scientist [[Florence Wambugu]] established her own biotechnology foundation, becoming Chief Executive of [[Africa Harvest Biotechnology Foundation International]] (AHFBI), usually called Africa Harvest for short.
-Africa Harvest's website stated about the Communication for Development Program:
+AHBFI's Biotechnology Outreach Strategy, according to its 2007 Annual Report, aims to "provide leadership in the public debate surrounding biotechnology". In 2007, says its report, AHBFI deliberately shifted to third-party techniques to push GMOs:
 :Africa’s underdevelopment is linked to lack of knowledge. In the agricultural sector, communication is an integral part of the Africa Harvest programs and projects design; in particular, biotech and risk communication are designed to facilitate the adoption of new crops and products, especially GM products. Africa Harvest Communication for Development Program includes an effective biotech communication and public acceptance program designed to empower people from those within national governments down to the local level to make informed decisions regarding the implementation of biotechnology crops, bio-safety policy development, and bio-safety protection.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070410081155/http://www.ahbfi.org/programs.htm Communication for Development Program], Africa Harvest website, version placed in web archive 10 Apr 2007, accessed in web archive 14 Sept 2009</ref>

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 ==Funding==
-In the period from January 2007 to December 2007, Africa Harvest’s total revenue was US $3.1412 million. Most donations were received from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], [[Rockefeller Foundation]], [[CropLife|CropLife International]], [[DuPont]], [[USAID]]/[[KARI]] and individual donors.
+In the period from January 2007 to December 2007, Africa Harvest’s total revenue was US $3.1412 million. Most donations were received from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], [[Rockefeller Foundation]], [[CropLife International|CropLife]], [[DuPont]], [[USAID]]/[[KARI]] and individual donors.<ref>[http://africaharvest.org/files/Annual%20Report%202007_Complete.pdf Annual Technical & Finance Report 2007], Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International, 2007, p. 9, accessed 14 Sept 2009</ref>
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	:They also charge that these NGOs are far from being as representative as they suggest, merely consisting of a website and a few staff.<ref>Aaron deGrassi, "[http://allafrica.com/sustainable/resources/view/00010161.pdf Genetically Modified Crops and Sustainable Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment of Current Evidence]", Third World Network - Africa, June 2003, p. 55, accessed 30 June 2009</ref>		:They also charge that these NGOs are far from being as representative as they suggest, merely consisting of a website and a few staff.<ref>Aaron deGrassi, "[http://allafrica.com/sustainable/resources/view/00010161.pdf Genetically Modified Crops and Sustainable Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment of Current Evidence]", Third World Network - Africa, June 2003, p. 55, accessed 30 June 2009</ref>
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−	The cornerstone of Florence Wambugu's career has been the GM sweet potato project. She has presented the sweet potato as a crop grown in her childhood by her mother. "The sweet potato is a woman's crop," she says.<ref>Lynn J. Cook, "[http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2002/1223/302.html Millions served]", Forbes, 23 December 2002, accessed June 30 2009</ref> Wambugu has also presented the project, which in 2001 moved out of Monsanto's labs into the [[Kenya Agricultural Research Institute]], as very much her own and essentially a Kenyan affair. Some newspaper accounts of the project have not even mentioned Monsanto.

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