This contradicts the US-dominated World Food Programme's claims.
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WFP Can Acquire Non-GM Foods From SADC Countries
Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
June 15, 2004
Luanda
http://allafrica.com/stories/200406150809.html

The coordinator of the National Centre for Phytogenetics Resources (CNRF), Elizabeth Matus, affirmed today in Luanda, that the World Food Programme can acquire natural products from SADC [Southern African Development Community] countries instead of genetically modified foods.

According to Mrs Matus, last year, the World Food Programme acquired maize from Zimbabwe and South Africa for countries that refuse genetically modified foods and it can also do so for Angola, instead of bringing food from the United States of America.

In the US, she affirmed, they mix the products and do not declare which foods are genetically modified.

The CNRF coordinator was speaking on the possibility of the WFP to stop donate to Angola altered products and to the purpose of the ratification of the Decree about genetically modified resources which bans the entry of this product into the country in grain.