Philanthropic colonialism: embedding agribusiness and GMOs into African agriculture

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/Blogs/2987504/philanthropic_colonialism_embedding_agribusiness_and_gmos_into_african_agriculture.html
Date Written:  2016-04-08
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19341

Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.