GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty | Rob Bailey: Biotechnology offers an opportunity to boost the security of staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa. We ignore this at our peril Transforming agriculture is central to sub-Saharan Africas development prospects. Three-quarters of people in extreme poverty existing on less than $1.25 a day live in rural areas, and crop yields across the region are often a fraction of those in developed countries. Increasing productivity could help close that gap and increase farm incomes and food availability, in turn reducing hunger and poverty. But the transformation must go beyond raising farm productivity it must also build resilience to climate change, which, in the absence of significant investment and adaptation, threatens to devastate African crop yields. Continue reading...
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:47:44 +0000
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