The CAADP runs a biosciences network, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with central infrastructure in Burkina Faso, to research crops and livestock. To promote mass cultivation of food, CAADP leads a Fertilizer Support Programme that will facilitate a “substantial increase in the use of fertilizer in Africa by 2015.” The CAADP also encourages new fisheries to combat food insecurity, a structural adjustment that brought many serious problems in India.
Apropos Monsanto, the intention of the New Alliance is stated clearly in a recent document released by the G8 on the New Alliance’s objectives in Tanzania: the New Alliance focuses on “implementing domestic seed policies that encourage increased private sector involvement in this area.” With Monsanto standing in for the private sector, there is every indication that these domestic seed policies will favor GMO crops, as well as the creation of new GMO hybrids. In India, such policies led to the notorious patenting of Basmati rice and the devastation of traditional seed-saving practices. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/27/triangular-cooperation-and-the-new-great-game/ Plus this: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/bill-gates-debates-sociobiologist-matt-ridley-about-africas-future/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
