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Bill Gates reveals support for GMO eg
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| As it has come to dominate the agenda for
| reshaping African agriculture over the years,
| the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has
| been very careful not to associate itself too
| closely with patent-protected biotechnology
| as a panacea for African farmers.
|
| True, the foundation named 25-year Monsanto
| veteran Rob Horsch to the position of "senior
| program officer, focusing on improving crop
| yields in sub-Saharan Africa."
|
| Yet its flagship program for African ag, the
| Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
| (AGRA), explicitly distances itself from
| GMOs. "AGRA does not fund the development of
| GMOs," the organization's Web site states.
|
| But AGRA -- co-funded by the Rockefeller
| Foundation, proud sponsor of the original
| Green Revolution -- is just part of what
| Gates does around African ag. What precisely
| is the foundation getting up to over there?
| Is it pushing GMOs on African smallholder
| farms?
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http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-21-bill-gates-reveals-support-for-gmo-ag
Recent:
Gates backs GM crops: tech must help farmers, feed rising population
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| Giving his full support to the use of
| genetic engineering in agriculture,
| Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill
| Gates today said if the world continued to
| produce food with existing technologies it
| would not be able to feed its increasing
| population.
|
| In an interview with Shekhar Gupta,
| Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, for
| NDTVâs Walk The Talk programme, Gates, who
| is on a visit to India for work related to
| his charitable foundation, said the world
| needed newer crops with increased
| productivity, better adaptability to
| changing climatic conditions and the ones
| that use less of insecticides. And these,
| he said, could only be made through
| innovations in agricultural biotechnology
| sector.
|
| âTechnology, properly applied, is the
| reason, if you like, why nine billion
| people can live on this planet without
| destroying it,â said Gates who toured
| remote villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
| during his visit.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Gates-backs-GM-crops--tech-must-help-farmers--feed-rising-population/619502
Gates backs GM crops: tech must help farmers, feed rising population
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| Giving his full support to the use of
| genetic engineering in agriculture,
| Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill
| Gates today said if the world continued to
| produce food with existing technologies it
| would not be able to feed its increasing
| population.
|
| In an interview with Shekhar Gupta,
| Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, for
| NDTVâs Walk The Talk programme, Gates, who
| is on a visit to India for work related to
| his charitable foundation, said the world
| needed newer crops with increased
| productivity, better adaptability to
| changing climatic conditions and the ones
| that use less of insecticides. And these,
| he said, could only be made through
| innovations in agricultural biotechnology
| sector.
|
| âTechnology, properly applied, is the
| reason, if you like, why nine billion
| people can live on this planet without
| destroying it,â said Gates who toured
| remote villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
| during his visit.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Gates-backs-GM-crops--tech-must-help-farmers--feed-rising-population/619502
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