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Kenyan farmer: Africa denied biotech revolution due to European activists - C C - Jul 12, 2018
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/07/11/brink-innovative-ag-technology-acceptance-kenyan-farmers-perspective/
EXCERPT: (highlights) Kenya and much of Africa have been denied the tools of modern crop technology available in more industrialized countries mostly because of political opposition, often linked to European activists. GMOs developed or in the pipeline to contain diseases like armyworm and climate change related challenges such as drought and flooding, but are stalled. For Africa to fulfill its potential, feed its fast-growing populations, and perhaps even emerge as a global bread basket, crop biotechnology is essential.
Farmers have good years and bad years. Here in Kenya, however, the good years never seemed quite as good as they could have been and the bad years have felt worse than necessary. Why? It’s because we can’t take advantage of tools that farmers in much of the developed world take for granted: genetically engineered crops, often referred to as GMOs....
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