>Of course, many aid organisations - often heavily influenced by
>Western green campaigns - have attacked the emphasis on GM
>technology, calling it a "technical fix" that does little to address
>the real social and economic causes of world poverty and hunger.
>They said the same several decades ago when widespread famine was
>predicted to follow a population explosion. The population explosion
>materialised but the famine did not. The reason was that while
>others argued for social reform, pioneering plant breeders launched
>the green revolution and saved millions from starvation.
Shiva - and Perelman - deny that modern farming is massively more productive than traditional techniques, right? So is this wrong? Isn't it true that India has massively increased grain production without increasing area under cultivation?
Doug