The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has released a comprehensive critique of a report published by the African Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA): African Agriculture Status Report 2013.
The critique reveals that AGRA’s vision is premised on Public Private Partnerships in which African governments will shoulder the cost and burden of developing regulatory procedures and infrastructure
to enable private agribusiness to profit from new African agriculture markets.

From the African Centre for Biosafety:

The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has today released its new research report titled 'GM Maize: Lessons For Africa-Cartels, Collusion And Control Of South Africa's Staple Food' showing how a select group of companies, including Tiger Brands, Pioneer and Premier Foods who have previously fixed the price of bread and maize meal, commandeer the entire maize value chain and continue to squeeze the poorest South Africans. The ACB has recently shown that the entire maize meal market is saturated with GM maize.i

By Leonette Le Roux of Ecoshopper

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Plants (S. chacoense) transformed using Agrobacterium. Transformed cells start forming calluses on the side of the leaf pieces.

So, has the world finally gone mad? Have we swapped our sanity for sustainability? If we look at the facts sheet, crop biotechnology surely seems to steal the show, reducing pesticide spraying by a staggering 474 million kg between 1996 and 2011 (an 8.9% reduction), resulting in a whopping 14.609 million kg of carbon dioxide saving, the reduction of green house gas emissions equivalent to removing 6.5 million cars from the road for a year!(1 )