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Article: Resistance to genetic engineering in Africa.(Biodevastation 7)
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- Synthesis/Regeneration
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Uptake of biotechnology in Africa is growing at an increasing rate as multinational corporations continue to flood it with genetic engineering technology. This uptake cannot go without negative impact on biodiversity, the environment, producers and consumers. The most significant impact is on the numerous resource poor farmers. Most farmers will never be able to afford technology fees and the chemicals to grow these new GE seeds. It is even possible now to genetically engineer plants to produce sterile seeds, stopping farmers from saving their seeds for replanting the next year.
About a third of humanity (1.4 billion people) depends on saved seed for their ...