Seed Of Control: How Corporate Agribusiness Is Colonising African Agriculture
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This page is a repost of an article discussing the negative impacts of corporate agribusiness, GMOs, and international foundations on African agriculture, followed by a comment advocating for indigenous seeds. The discussion focuses on systemic issues like seed patents and the loss of traditional farming practices rather than immediate farmer-to-farmer problems or trade.
“Across Africa, a new form of agricultural recolonization is unfolding—packaged in the benevolent language of "food security" and "climate adaptation" but designed to shift control of food systems away from African farmers and toward multinational corporations and Western philanthropies.”
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“Nowadays, you have okro fruit that are big for nothing; orange that lack seeds and sweetness, maize seed that cannot be regrown from the harvested lot the following year.”
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