Starved for Science

Author: Robert Paarlberg
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B002PMVP14

Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

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Heading upcountry in Africa to visit small farms is absolutely exhilarating given the dramatic beauty of big skies, red soil, and arid vistas, but eventually the two-lane tarmac narrows to rutted dirt, and the journey must continue on foot. Download Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The farmers you eventually meet are mostly women, hardworking but visibly poor. They have no improved seeds, no chemical fertilizers, no irrigation, and with their meager crops they earn less than a dollar a day. Many are malnourished.

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