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2009-06-19 | permalink
GE crops can boost small farmers’ incomes in Uganda
SMALL-HOLDER farmers’ incomes can increase if they adopt genetically-modified (GM) crops, a director at the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) has observed. ”In the coming years, growing populations, stagnating agricultural productivity and increasing climate change will make it more difficult for Africa to tackle poverty, hunger and nutrition,” Mark Rosegrant said.
Rosegrant said in order to fight these challenges, many African countries, including Uganda, are increasingly assessing a range of tools and technologies like bio-technologies, which hold great promise for improving crop yields, household incomes and nutritional quality of food in an environmentally-sustainable way.
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2009-06-19 | permalink
GE crops can boost small farmers’ incomes in Uganda
SMALL-HOLDER farmers’ incomes can increase if they adopt genetically-modified (GM) crops, a director at the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) has observed. ”In the coming years, growing populations, stagnating agricultural productivity and increasing climate change will make it more difficult for Africa to tackle poverty, hunger and nutrition,” Mark Rosegrant said.
Rosegrant said in order to fight these challenges, many African countries, including Uganda, are increasingly assessing a range of tools and technologies like bio-technologies, which hold great promise for improving crop yields, household incomes and nutritional quality of food in an environmentally-sustainable way.
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