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jeff47

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3. So why can't they manage to back up their own headline?

Reply to KoKo (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2015, 03:39 PM

Mar 2015

Short version:
Right now, lots of African farmers use seeds from last year's crop to plant this year's crop. The evil people want to set up a system where farmers can buy industrial-scale seeds instead.

Nowhere in the article is there anything that indicates farmers can not keep using seeds from last year's crop. It's kinda hard to be a "takeover" when you don't actually take over. Hell, the article explicitly states that they expect the industrial seeds to cost more, which means formers are going to choose to keep planting seeds from last year's crop.

If anything, the actual content of the article makes it sound like these evil groups are completely wasting their time and money.

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Grabbing Africa's Seeds: USAID, EU and Gates Foundation Back Agribusiness Seed Takeover [View all] KoKo Mar 2015 OP

What ever they are doing it is not to help feed Africa. For decades now USAID and the World Bank jwirr Mar 2015 #1

The new faces of evil in Africa. GliderGuider Mar 2015 #2

So why can't they manage to back up their own headline? jeff47 Mar 2015 #3