Questioning Corporate Agriculture

Image via WikipediaFood and Water Watch writes:

The risks to Africa of fully adopting industrial agriculture in general and GM seeds in particular include:

* transferring its food and farming decisions –– its food sovereignty –– to global corporations,
* losing ecological and agricultural diversity as genetically modified crop varieties spread through pollen contamination, and
* driving small- and medium-scale family farmers off their land because they cannot afford the expensive inputs, including genetically modified seeds, that industrial agriculture demands...[continue reading]