FOOD CRISIS SUMMIT: GOVERNMENTS SHOULD SCRAP BIOFUELS, NOT PUSH GM CROPS
Friends of the Earth International, October 16 2012
ROME (ITALY) / LONDON (UK) - As Governments gather in Rome today, World Food Day, to discuss the global food price crisis, Friends of the Earth International warns in a new report [1] that agriculture donors such as the United States and United Kingdom are pumping money into genetically modified (GM) crops at the cost of farming methods better suited to tackling hunger.
Since the advent of the food price crisis in 2008, some Governments have championed the 'sustainable intensification' of farming as a new way to increase yields without harming the environment.
The report investigates what adopting this approach has meant for donors and finds that despite its claim to support a variety of ecological farming methods, funding is still heavily skewed towards GM crops and business as usual intensive agriculture.
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