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2009-07-30 | permalink
Role of genetically modified crops in Africa
During the past decade, Africa’s population increased from 760 to 970 million, pushing farmers to encroach on fragile ecosystems. Climate change is increasingly manifest through erratic rainfall patterns, prolonged drought spells, and unprecedented floods, making rain-fed agriculture even more risky, thus aggravating food insecurity among resource-poor smallholder farmers. Compounding this scenario are post-harvest pests that devour their meager harvests. Indeed, the challenges are great, sometimes disillusioning, but certainly not insurmountable. Under these circumstances, GM technologies have a role in addressing challenges that were previously elusive to classical breeding on its own.
- The Council for Biotechnology Information, USA: Role of genetically modified crops in Africa
- The Globe and Mail, Canada: Enviro-romanticism is hurting Africa
- The Globe & Mail, Canada: Breaking the food chains
- New Vision, Uganda: ’We need modified crops’
- New Vision, Uganda: New maize variety to counter drought
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2009-07-30 | permalink
Role of genetically modified crops in Africa
During the past decade, Africa’s population increased from 760 to 970 million, pushing farmers to encroach on fragile ecosystems. Climate change is increasingly manifest through erratic rainfall patterns, prolonged drought spells, and unprecedented floods, making rain-fed agriculture even more risky, thus aggravating food insecurity among resource-poor smallholder farmers. Compounding this scenario are post-harvest pests that devour their meager harvests. Indeed, the challenges are great, sometimes disillusioning, but certainly not insurmountable. Under these circumstances, GM technologies have a role in addressing challenges that were previously elusive to classical breeding on its own.
- The Council for Biotechnology Information, USA: Role of genetically modified crops in Africa
- The Globe and Mail, Canada: Enviro-romanticism is hurting Africa
- The Globe & Mail, Canada: Breaking the food chains
- New Vision, Uganda: ’We need modified crops’
- New Vision, Uganda: New maize variety to counter drought
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