{"id":539030,"date":"2010-04-22T00:07:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T04:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleglobaljustice.org\/?p=949"},"modified":"2010-04-22T00:07:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T04:07:53","slug":"april-29-dysfunctional-aid-and-misplaced-philanthropy-african-farmers%e2%80%99-responses-to-the-green-revolution-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/539030","title":{"rendered":"April 29! Dysfunctional Aid and Misplaced Philanthropy: African Farmers\u2019 Responses to the Green Revolution in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Thursday, April 29th<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobaljustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/n113664181987799_3546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-954\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\" title=\"Josphat Ngonyo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobaljustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/n113664181987799_3546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n7:00-9:00pm<br \/>\nFREE<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/home\/maps\/northcentral.html?GWN\" >Gowen Hall<\/a> Room 201 at the University of Washington, just north of Suzzallo Library<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Josphat Ngonyo Executive Director of African Network for Animal Welfare, a lead organization in the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition, is coming to Seattle!\u00a0 Kenya is currently at a crossroads between burgeoning organic movements,  and its participation in the &#8220;New Green Revolution&#8221; for Africa,  financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and their partners. As  a representative of farmer organizations in Kenya, Mr. Ngonyo will  discuss the social, economic, and environmental consequences of the new  green revolution agricultural model. He will also share stories with us  of resistance to this approach and information about actual alternative  agricultural practices.<\/p>\n<p>Josphat Ngonyo is Founder and Executive Director of African Network for  Animal Welfare, a lead organization in the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition  (KBioC).  CAGJ\u2019s Director, Heather Day, recently met with Josphat and  many of his colleagues in KBioC, who are taking the lead in resisting  the introduction of GMOs into Kenya, and promoting agroecological  alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Other ways to catch Mr. Ngonyo:<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 29<sup>th<\/sup> Tune in to hear Mr.\u00a0Ngonyo on KUOW\u2019s<em> The Conversation<\/em><\/strong><strong> 12 \u2013 1pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Join Brown-Bag luncheon with African Studies Program, UW <\/strong><strong>Thomson Hall Rm 317, 1:30 \u2013 2:30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Questions?\u00a0 Contact 206-405-4600 or email <a href=\"mailto:agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org\" >AGRA Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Sponsored by Community Environment and Planning, Anthropology, African Studies Program, UW Bothell, and Community Alliance for Global Justice<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 29th 7:00-9:00pm FREE Gowen Hall Room 201 at the University of Washington, just north of Suzzallo Library Josphat Ngonyo Executive Director of African Network for Animal Welfare, a lead organization in the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition, is coming to Seattle!\u00a0 Kenya is currently at a crossroads between burgeoning organic movements, and its participation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}