Published on Thursday Sept 14th, 2023 in Independent Science News: Transgenic Rice Once Again Proposed as Solution to Bacterial Blight Outbreaks, This Time in Africa by GRAIN
SYNOPSIS: Gates Foundation-funded researchers are touting a new variety of transgenic rice as the solution to a bacterial blight threatening rice growers in Tanzania. The disease is new to Africa, at least in this form, and it threatens rice across the continent. The ironies of this situation are many. The blight probably came from China via a Chinese agribusiness that was offering ‘improved’ rice seeds. Meanwhile, solutions to bacterial blights already exist in the form of sustainable agroecology practices but these are being ignored.
(GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems).
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