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Biowatch South Africa is a national non-governmental organisation dedicated to publicising, monitoring and researching issues of biological diversity, genetic engineering and sustainable livelihoods. We live in a world where economic globalisation and unregulated free trade, investment and production increasingly undermine people’s livelihoods and choices, and where the risks of adopting new technologies are unevenly balanced against the rights of people to a safe and healthy environment.
Biowatch South Africa strives to prevent biological diversity from being privatised for corporate gain. We aspire to a country and a world where people have control over their food supply systems, where benefits arising from the commercial use of biological resources are fairly shared, and where policy choices about new technologies such as genetic engineering are made in a transparent and participatory way. We place emphasis on the value of traditional and indigenous knowledge systems to conserve biodiversity, and work towards a future where there is no hunger, where there is dignity and social justice, and where our land, water and air are protected for our children and for their children’s children.
Our work includes:
* researching and monitoring the commercialisation of biological resources
* promoting sustainable livelihoods, sustainable agriculture and food security
* monitoring the impacts of genetically modified organisms [GMOs] in South Africa
* offering expertise and building capacity for the understanding and debate of these issues
* building public awareness on biodiversity issues as a basis for informed participation in policy making.
Biowatch South Africa strives for a world in which:
* Countries uphold their local, regional and global commitments to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity
* The benefits derived from the commercialisation of biological diversity are shared fairly and equitably and contribute towards the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity
* Families, communities and nations guarantee their food security through the use and exchange of seeds and crops
* Community knowledge of biological resources is respected and protected from biopiracy
* Life forms cannot be patented
* Genetically modified organisms do not threaten our natural and social environments
* National law and international agreements on these issues are developed through well-informed and widespread public participation and ownership.
Biowatch South Africa strives to prevent biological diversity from being privatised for corporate gain. We aspire to a country and a world where people have control over their food supply systems, where benefits arising from the commercial use of biological resources are fairly shared, and where policy choices about new technologies such as genetic engineering are made in a transparent and participatory way. We place emphasis on the value of traditional and indigenous knowledge systems to conserve biodiversity, and work towards a future where there is no hunger, where there is dignity and social justice, and where our land, water and air are protected for our children and for their children’s children.
Our work includes:
* researching and monitoring the commercialisation of biological resources
* promoting sustainable livelihoods, sustainable agriculture and food security
* monitoring the impacts of genetically modified organisms [GMOs] in South Africa
* offering expertise and building capacity for the understanding and debate of these issues
* building public awareness on biodiversity issues as a basis for informed participation in policy making.
Biowatch South Africa strives for a world in which:
* Countries uphold their local, regional and global commitments to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity
* The benefits derived from the commercialisation of biological diversity are shared fairly and equitably and contribute towards the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity
* Families, communities and nations guarantee their food security through the use and exchange of seeds and crops
* Community knowledge of biological resources is respected and protected from biopiracy
* Life forms cannot be patented
* Genetically modified organisms do not threaten our natural and social environments
* National law and international agreements on these issues are developed through well-informed and widespread public participation and ownership.
