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The July 2010 issue of Seedling, a publication of the organization GRAIN, features an article examining the international aid being offered to Haiti, including hybrid and possibly GMO seeds from Monsanto, and the response of the local people.

Peasant organisations in Haiti are angry at the Haitian authorities for allowing multinational donors and corporations to take advantage of the post-earthquake reconstruction programme to deepen the country’s reliance on the outside world. They are calling instead for a radical programme of agricultural reconstruction, to rebuild the country’s ravaged peasantry and bring about food sovereignty.