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2007-04-02 | permalink
Does opposition to GM crops hurt the poor?
People tend to have strong views on genetically modified crops. It"s usually a fairly wide divide between the ”GM can solve world hunger” camp and the line that ”GM could be dangerous and agricultural corporations like Monsanto are evil”. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, who used to oversee the U.N. Human Development Reports, is somewhere in the middle. She argues that GM technology so far hasn"t done much to help the poor, but it could. She says European campaigners against biotechnology are part of the problem.
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2007-04-02 | permalink
Does opposition to GM crops hurt the poor?
People tend to have strong views on genetically modified crops. It"s usually a fairly wide divide between the ”GM can solve world hunger” camp and the line that ”GM could be dangerous and agricultural corporations like Monsanto are evil”. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, who used to oversee the U.N. Human Development Reports, is somewhere in the middle. She argues that GM technology so far hasn"t done much to help the poor, but it could. She says European campaigners against biotechnology are part of the problem.
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