[asia-apec 1090] PDA to PDI

[CUSO Thailand]

Dear Devlin,
Met S this weekend.  There is a witchhunt on inside PDA trying to find the
source of the leak.  Adamant that she not be identified in any way.  She is
out at the end of next month.  Staff in charge of the project have been
changed.
Apparently PDA are considering a withdrawal of their name, but only to
replace it with PDI, their international offshoot (I know only of projects
in Indochina), which she says is registered in the UK.  Such a move would
be such a blatantly transparent attempt to hide their continued
participation that I can hardly believe even PDA is that stupid.
I note with some amusement that the IRRI stuff refers to NGOs in a way that
clearly does not include PDA.  At last, official recognition that PDA is no
such thing.
And I will write a letter to PDA and IRRI and Monsanto.
There is a resolution to the CUSO AGM asking that CUSO publicly foreswear
GMOs and actively oppose them.
Cheers
Alec