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Billions have been spent promoting and subsidizing GMO seeds and agrichemicals across Africa while promises are failing to be fulfilled.
Billions have been spent promoting and subsidizing GMO seeds and agrichemicals across Africa while promises are failing to be fulfilled.
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…”