Can GM solve the problem of global hunger?
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Founder of ISEC
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About the video: ‘Can GM solve the problem of global hunger?’
Many Bio-tech companies market their GM seeds using the claim that GM is the answer to world hunger. Here, Norberg-Hodge explains how these profit-driven corporations are in reality preventing third-world farmers from planting the local native seeds they have been using for generations. She also cites the lack of in-depth risk assessment as a reason for putting the technology on hold.
Total views: 3,675
Filmed: World Summit on Sustainable Development. Johannesburg, South Africa on 1 September 2002
Credits: Interviewer - Michael O'Callaghan Camera - Michael O'Callaghan Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2002 Global Vision Consulting Ltd
About Helena Norberg-Hodge
Founder of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) and Co-Founder of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG). A linguist by training and a native of Sweden, Helena has been extremely critical of conventional notions of development. She first visited Ladakh in 1975 and founded the Ladakh Project to provide Ladakhis with the means with which they could make more informed choices about their own future.
In recognition for her work she was given a Right Livelihood Award in 1986, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize.’
She is the author of the highly acclaimed “Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh” (1991).
She is on the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture.
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