Biowatch celebrates 20 years
This is a landmark celebration for a landmark organisation.
JOIN Biowatch South Africa on 12 June at the Durban Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre at 5pm, to celebrate two decades of learning, sharing and activism to protect biodiversity and farmers’ rights, and secure food sovereignty and climate justice. Judge Justice Poswa, retired Judge of the High Court, will be speaking, and eThekwini Living Legend, Sazi Dlamini, will contribute music to the evening.
Biowatch has had a marked and positive influence on democratic processes through its legal challenge of state secrecy in relation to genetically modified crops. In partnership with smallholder farmers, it has demonstrated that agroecology practices produce healthy quantities of nutritious foods, while protecting the soil, biodiversity and water resources that life on earth depends on.
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Rose Williams, Biowatch Director, said: “KwaZulu-Natal is also where Biowatch has been working alongside smallholder farmers for the past 20 years. It is here that we have been able to demonstrate agroecology in practice, while gathering evidence to support our critique of the devastating impact of industrial agriculture. With its use of toxic herbicides and pesticides, the extreme use of water, and spewing out of global greenhouse gases, the industrialised food system is a major cause of the calamity of climate change.”
RSVP to Allison Myeza on 031 206 2954 or email: info@biowatch.org.za.
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