permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> Genetically Modified Morals--A Global Food Fight, by Kathleen McAfee
> http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0613-09.htm
>
> Jane Grimsbo Jewett
> Information Exchange
> Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
> University of Minnesota
> ********************************************************
> Published on Friday, June 13, 2003 by the International Herald Tribune
> Genetically Modified Morals
> A Global Food Fight
> by Kathleen McAfee

...
> In any case, lack of quality crop varieties is not the major obstacle to
> African food production; the bigger problems in Africa are poor
> roads and storage facilities, lack of credit and fertilizer, degraded
> soils, labor shortages...

In other words, if they were more like "US(A)" they'd be fine - they just
need more pavement and trucks, bigger silos, deeper debt and more external
inputs...



John Schinnerer, MA
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