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NOTES
(^1) The science of changing the characteristics of a living thing by altering or manipulating its genes.
(^2) Set of hereditary characteristics of an individual or a group of individuals.
(^3) A chromosome’s segment that contains the information responsible for hereditary characteristics.
(^4) Berlureau, C., cited in Muyengo, Mulombe, Ethique et génie génétique, Kinshasa : Presse Uni-
versitaire Sud, 2004, p. 270. To read more about the creation or construction of a transgenic
plant, i.e. the transgenesis, one can refer to 2002 publications by the Institut français de l’envi-
ronnement.
(^5) FNSEA, Les OGM en agriculture. Report of the Economic Committee, Paris : FNSEA, 1998,
pp. 9-14.
(^6) INRA, cited in FNSEA, op. cit., pp. 10-11.
(^7) Ibidem, p. 12.
(^8) Ibid., pp. 13-14.
(^9) Recognition of an intellectual property right upon living matter on the benefit of the person
who made the discovery.
(^10) Comité permanent inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel, Etat des lieux de la
réglementation, de l’autorisation et de la circulation des OGM dans le Sahel, Bamako : Institut du
Sahel, 2004, p. 4.
(^11) This is serious, for God himself through his prophet purposely deplores the lack of knowledge
of his people : ‘My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.’ (Hos 4 :64)
(^12) FAO, The Right to Food. Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right
to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the 127th Session of the
FAO Council November 2004, Rome : FAO, 2005, Guideline 15 : International Food Aid.
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