About 80 percent of Africa’s food is produced by smallholders, who seldom farm on more than five hectares of land and usually on much less. The majority of these farmers are women, who have scant access to finance or secure land tenure.
That they still manage to provide the lion’s share of the continents’ food, usually without formal seed, chemicals, mechanisation, irrigation or subsidies, is testament to their resilience and innovation.
African farmers have a lot to lose from the introduction of GMOs – the rich diversity of African agriculture, its robust resilience and the social cohesion engendered through cultures of sharing and collective effort could be replaced by a handful of monotonous commodity crops owned by foreign masters.
via Opinion: Manipulate and Mislead – How GMOs are Infiltrating Africa | Inter Press Service.





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