GMOs, food security and misplaced aid -- an interview with Kenya's Jos Ngonyo

http://www.seattlepostglobe.org/2010/05/11/gmos-food-security-and-misplaced-aid-an-interview-with-kenyas-jos-ngonyo

• Forty thousand tons of genetically engineered maize was recently rejected in Kenya. Protesters are making sure it remains stuck in the port city of Mombassa.
• Jos Ngonyo talked about why small-scale farmers reject the Green Revolution in Africa and “dysfunctional aid”; The Gates Foundation helped launch the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa four years ago.
• Ngonyo says that Genetically Modified Seeds are threatening Kenya's old-fashioned "heat the maize seeds and plant them." She says that Kenyan farmers cannot keep Monsanto's seeds because it is no longer theirs. This is jeopardizing Kenyan farmers.

Reflection

When I first read this article, I was a bit confused because Kenya is a failed state, and it needs as much help as it can get. When I read on, however, I noticed that Jos Ngonyo makes a very valid point on how Monsanto would try to manipulate Kenya because it will contain their invention of Genetically Modified Seeds. It showed me how something as simple as seeds could now be owned by a company.

Baskin, Martha. "GMOs, Food Security and Misplaced Aid -- an Interview with Kenya's Jos Ngonyo." Seattlepostglobe.org. 11 May 10. Web. 12 May 10. .