USAID: making the world hungry for GM crops
2005
This briefing examines how the US government uses USAID to actively promote GM agriculture, focusing on USAID's major programmes for agricultural biotechnology and the regions where these programmes are most active in parts of Africa and Asia.The briefing highlights that:these USAID programmes are part of a multi-pronged strategy to advance US interests with GM cropsincreasingly the US government uses multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements and high-level diplomatic pressure to push countries towards the adoption of many key bits of corporate-friendly regulations related to GM cropsit is not easy for poor countries to resist this pressure from the world’s superpower, and governments end up going against the desires of their populations in order to appease the US, thereby putting the livelihoods of millions of farmers at riskan increasing number of people are no longer tolerant of the biotech industry’s, and particularly the US government’s, aggressive push of GM crops and their government’s acquiescencein its haste to force-feed the world with its GM crops, the US government may be seriously miscalculating the explosive force of the social movements that its policies are helping to unleash.
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