| text : | F. Wambugu answer = In africa GM food could almost literally weed out poverty.
In Europe, some people oppose crops with herbicide genes. In Africa most weeding
is done by women - 50 per cent of women's labour in Africa is tied up with weeding.
reducing that would have a major impact.In developed countries food is getter cheaper because they use more and more
technology, but in tropical Africa it's getting more and more expensive
because it's all manually produced. People with small salary spend almost all
of it on food. If we can increase food productivity in rural areas it will
bring the price of food down, and generate more money for investment to
turn the wider economy round.
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