GM Crops in Africa: Challenges in Egypt
GM Crops in Africa: Challenges in Egypt
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非洲转基因作物：埃及面临的挑战
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10.4161/gmcr.1.3.12811
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2010
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N. Abdallah
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N. Abdallah
在非洲，每年有600万儿童在五岁生日前死于营养不良（世界银行统计数据）。8亿多人饿着肚子上床睡觉，其中3亿是儿童。“仅仅因为我的人民饿了，这不是给他们毒药的理由“赞比亚总统利维·姆瓦纳瓦萨直言不讳的小话，他在2002年非洲面临的最严重的粮食短缺危机期间拒绝接受来自美国的碾磨谷物。令人惊讶地;赞比亚、津巴布韦、马拉维和莫桑比克的非洲领导人拒绝接受粮食援助，因为粮食援助被转基因生物“污染”。此外，他们还声称，它使食品“对人类健康有害”。最终，非洲国家屈服并接受了转基因谷物，但赞比亚只有在从欧洲获得经认证的非转基因援助时才幸免于难。
In Africa, six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday per year (World Bank stats). More than 800 million people go to bed hungry, 300 million of them are children. "Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison"Small words that were outspoken by President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia, who refused to accept milled grains from the United States during the worst food shortage crises that ever faced Africa 2002. Amazingly; African leaders of Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique refused to accept food aid, because it was "contaminated" with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Moreover, they claimed that it made food "hazardous to human health". Eventually, African countries gave in and accepted milled GM cereals, but Zambia was only spared from the catastrophe when they received certifiably non-GM aid from Europe.