To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: GMO article]
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:47:58 -0700 (PDT)
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
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> 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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