Monsanto to end hunger in Africa (?)
Obama and Rich Nations Leave Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa
At
the Group of Eight (G8) meetings this past weekend at Camp David,
President Obama and the leaders of the rest of the world's richest
nations abandoned their governments' previous commitments to donate
$7.3 billion a year to end hunger in Africa and instead left the problem
in the hands of the so-called New Alliance for Food Security and
Nutrition where private corporations will invest $3 billion over 10
years - Monsanto has committed $50 million - beginning in three
countries, Tanzania, Ghana and Ethiopia.
Leaving the problem of hunger in the hand of
multinationals like Monsanto and Cargill will only exacerbate the
conditions already driving poverty in Africa - rich countries'
protectionism, land-grabbing, commodity speculation, food waste, and
diversion of crops to livestock feed and biofuels - and ratchet up the
costs of farming for small farmers by encouraging the use of expensive
and unsustainable GMO seeds, pesticides and fertilizers.
Read what food policy experts have to say about ending hunger in Africa.
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