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Good point. I am reading about him on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug This is really crazy
by NoPie 4y ago
Good point. I am reading about him on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
This is really crazy stuff:
>> Western European governments were persuaded to stop supplying fertilizer to Africa. According to David Seckler, former Director General of the International Water Management Institute, "the environmental community in the 1980s went crazy pressuring the donor countries and the big foundations not to support ideas like inorganic fertilizers for Africa."[36]
- sampo 4y agoAnd later the Western elites did it again: Quite successfully persuaded the 3rd world countries to not make use of the improved crop varieties that were bred with the assistance of gene technology.