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Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high-yield seeds, the results were the same: desperation, disease, and death.
And still, after twenty years of preaching that private markets would pick up the slack, these impoverished communities are further away than ever from using improved seeds, fertilizers, and small-scale water management technologies.
A shipment of an equivalent dollar amount of fertilizer and improved
seeds
from, say, the United States to Africa would yield perhaps five times more food.
Donors are rallying for food aid, but they are resisting the obvious need to help the poorest million farmers (and their four million dependents) get soil nutrients and improved
seeds
in time for the planting season this autumn.
But a more cynical view permeates populist logic, namely that in its excessive adherence to globalism, the US has sown the
seeds
of its own political and economic destruction.
Finally, it is often claimed that GM crops simply mean costlier
seeds
and less money for farmers.
Yes, the
seeds
are more expensive, but the rise in production offsets the additional cost.
The rest can come from technological, operational, and business innovations – for example, developing new
seeds
to increase agricultural yields, using new materials (such as carbon-fiber composites) to make cars and airplanes lighter and more resilient, or digitizing medical records.
For example, establishing a shared eurozone-level budget or unemployment-insurance regime would, at this stage, sow the
seeds
of future conflicts.
That is why it is more important than ever for international donors and African governments to continue to support programs that give small farmers access to the good seeds, quality tools, and reliable markets that they need to become self-sufficient.
If organizations like Rotary International can help African farmers to get a 50 kilogram bag of appropriate fertilizer and a 10 kilogram tin of improved seeds, the rise in farm output could be enough to relieve extreme hunger and help farm households begin to earn some income.
The key is practicality, boldness, and, most importantly, a commitment by those who are better off to volunteer their time and money to bring practical help–in the form of high-yield seeds, fertilizers, medicines, bed nets, drinking wells, and materials to build school rooms and clinics—to the world’s poorest people.
Yet it was precisely during that period when increasingly frothy financial markets were sowing the
seeds
of the disaster that was shortly to follow.
To improve yields, smallholder farmers need access to high-quality
seeds
and fertilizers, innovative financing, and modern technology.
But the soil in which they plant the
seeds
of hate is fertilized with ignorance.
Of course, the
seeds
of the collapse of Russian science were sown in the Soviet era, when three-quarters of scientific research was financed by the military.
Just Say No to Agricultural Gene DrivesLAGOS – First, the agribusiness giants came to take our land and disrupt our food systems with synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, proprietary seeds, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
The latter approach, which has been endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council, calls on farmers to share their existing knowledge and
seeds
with one another other, and to protect local ecosystems.
Ten of 21 branches of Dutch agribusiness, including horticultural seeds, ornamentals, seed potatoes, and veal, are among the top contributors to the national economy and the country’s trade balance.
Hong Kong’s cosmopolitanism long ago planted the
seeds
of tolerance and respect in our approach to government.
In attempting to explain this phenomenon, scientists observed that most of the island’s inhabitants ate cycad seeds, which contained beta-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a toxin that interferes with the nervous system’s functioning.
But the islanders carefully cleaned the
seeds
to remove the toxin before eating them, and they did not consume large enough quantities to cause damage.
They did, however, sometimes consume Guam flying foxes – a species of fruit bat that fed on cycad
seeds
and concentrated BMAA in their body fat.
Yet, they typically work smaller, less productive plots of land than men, and often lack access to the best seeds, fertilizer, credit, and training opportunities.
To do so would only sow the
seeds
of the next bubble.
$60 billion of foreign aid per year could stimulate a lot of new medicines, vaccines, hybrid seeds, and the like.
Mobile money and price information also enable pastoralists to adjust herd sizes to changing environmental conditions, while enabling farmers to secure
seeds
and fertilizer for future harvests.
Impoverished farmers should receive a free package of seeds, fertilizers, and low-cost equipment (such as pumps for irrigation).
Bloodshed, division, and hopelessness sow the
seeds
for terrorism and extremism.
We can see this concretely in the development and declining costs of new medicines like HIV drugs, and in the creation of new
seeds
that allow poor farmers to be more productive.
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