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How European Union restrictions fueled anti-GMO voices and hunger in Global South, and mainly AfricaAnti-GM sentiments in the EU have profoundly affected Africa and shaped GM policies.
In most cases, Africa’s leaders have always cited Europe as a benchmark for adopting genetic engineering technologies in agriculture.
Now that the EU is softening its stance on genetic technologies, we hope this can revolutionize agriculture in the Global South.
Agriculture accounts for 17.2 percent of Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides livelihood to over 50 percent of the population.
Yet, Africa’s agriculture is the least developed, has the lowest productivity, and is significantly affected by diseases, emerging pests, and extreme weather events.
Even as the EU is taking a new direction regarding genetic modification in agriculture, it will take much effort to change decades-old anti-GM sentiments in the Global South.
Vaikka tämä vuoden 2002 kriisi jossain mielessä onkin:
The European Union (EU) was and is still the largest market for African agricultural produce.
The EU has been waging war against GMOs for decades, citing its citizens’ safety and health concerns.
The EU was protecting its farmers from competitive American producers who had embraced GM food crops.
It was said the US food aid would contaminate African crops, ultimately closing export markets for Africa’s agricultural produce in the EU.
In 2003, The Royal Society published the results of field trials on GMOs in the UK, finding them harmful in some cases and helpful in others.
Based on these mixed findings, some non-governmental organizations in the EU demanded that all GM crops be banned.
Niinpä koko maailma tarkkailee nyt EU:ta sen
kärvistellessä oman päätöksensä kanssa.