The Ecologist: “Billions of dollars spent promoting and subsidizing GMO seeds and agrichemicals across Africa have failed to fulfill their promises to alleviate hunger and lift small-scale farmers out of poverty, according to a new white paper published by the Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute.
“African and German civil society organizations produced a report based on the research, “False Promises,” calling on governments to stop funding and subsidizing the so-called “green revolution” and shift support to programs that help small-scale food producers, particularly women and youth, develop climate-resilient ecologically sustainable farming practices…”