https://livingnongmo.org/2022/04/21/how-useful-are-gmos-on-a-warming-planet-middling/
The African Center for Biodiversity (ACB) argues that Droughtgard’s development rests on incomplete science and limited perspective. Droughts are complex things. The characteristics of a drought — its intensity, duration, when in the growth cycle it strikes — determine how crops fare. Adaptations to stressors such as drought are generally complex traits, meaning that many genes within the crop’s DNA are involved in their expression. Genetic modification operates at the level of a single gene or possibly a few genes, making it a poor tool for this particular job.
The ACB isn’t the only stakeholder concerned about corporate control and GMOs in Africa. Environmental justice advocate Nnimmo Bassey argues, “The politics of GMO is about who controls the market, it is not about feeding the people.”
The industrial model of agriculture that gave birth to the Green Revolution has reached its apex. During its tenure, it has degraded the earth’s soil, depleted essential species diversity, contributed to economic inequality and failed to eliminate hunger. But we are at a crossroads. The choice is ours, whether we double down on an extractive model of agriculture that has failed to deliver and is deeply destructive to our fragile environment, or we can find a new path forward.
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