Grist Comment Feed en http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-ag-in-india/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:47:08 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-ag-in-india/1 What they really need is airborne birth control.

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]]> http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-ag-in-india/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:24:57 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-ag-in-india/2 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-ag-in-india/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:55:02 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-15-ag-in-india/3 For anyone interested in a second 'Green Revolution,' particularly one aimed at Africa, I strongly encourage them to check a book called 'Out of the Earth' by David Hillel (an isreali soils scientist).  There is one chapter that takes a hard and close look at the reasons why a) the first green revolution failed there, and b) the reasons why the biennial cry for a second green revolution for africa also fail to take root.  I can guarantee you that for most all of the still poor people out there, genetic engineering is not the solution; primarily because of the costs associated with patented gene technology, but also because the various strategies for crop production simply do not comply with the dominant paridigm in the seed breeding / creating industry nor with the development / foreign aid industry.

]]> For anyone interested in a second 'Green Revolution,' particularly one aimed at Africa, I strongly encourage them to check a book called 'Out of the Earth' by David Hillel (an isreali soils scientist).  There is one chapter that takes a hard and close look at the reasons why a) the first green revolution failed there, and b) the reasons why the biennial cry for a second green revolution for africa also fail to take root.  I can guarantee you that for most all of the still poor people out there, genetic engineering is not the solution; primarily because of the costs associated with patented gene technology, but also because the various strategies for crop production simply do not comply with the dominant paridigm in the seed breeding / creating industry nor with the development / foreign aid industry.

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