{"id":4448,"date":"2019-08-08T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"if-gmo-is-the-future-it-needs-to-be-sanitized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/08\/if-gmo-is-the-future-it-needs-to-be-sanitized\/","title":{"rendered":"If GMO Is The Future, It Needs To Be Sanitized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By The New Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa Food Security\nLeadership Dialogue is being held at a time when the continent is at its lowest\nfood-secure stage and things are not made any easier by climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the meeting, what the experts were pushing forward most was emphasizing that Africa was at the crossroads of hunger. Its only salvation was adopting technology in growing food, they were talking about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO); using seeds that are pest and weather-resistant and with much more yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mere mention of GMO could\nmake some people ran back to the rainmaker or the village seer to keep away the\nlocusts. It has a not-so-good reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, the giant of GMO\ntechnology has been Monsanto, well, until sometime last year or so when it was\n\u201cswallowed\u201d by the German drugmaker, Bayer, for a cool $66 Billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While biotechnology is the\nway to go, there is a need to tread carefully so that no one person or entity\ncorners the seed market, accusations that have followed Monsanto for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is easy for a behemoth\nlike Bayer-Monsanto to become a target of covetous conspiracies, but it has\ndone little to salvage its image, especially on this continent, or in the eyes\nof the over 13,000 plaintiffs, most of them suing over a controversial weed\nkiller, Roundup, said to cause cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One piece of advice to those\nin the food industry; bringing experts from all over the continent as\nsalespersons will not earn the trust of a suspicious and better-informed people\nthan in past generations. You need to partner with and deal with them openly.\nThey need to own the transition towards biotechnology, but rest assured,\nlobbyists will hardly get past the first layer of defense; trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/opinions\/editorial-if-gmo-future-it-needs-be-sanitised\">Original\narticle<\/a> on&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/\">The New Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The New Times Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue is being held at a time when the continent is at its lowest food-secure stage and things are not made any&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}