The naysayers of agricultural biotechnology have made many arguments against GMO adoption in industrialized nations. A lot of this opposition has also targeted farming in developing regions, more specifically in Africa.
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While farmers from low-income nations can often not afford new innovations such as modern tractors that improve farm productivity, they most certainly can afford improved seeds. To them, the importance is the trait of the new crop and not the method by which it would be produced. Likewise, the planting of seeds itself, albeit improved ones, presents no major feat even to the novice small-scale farmer.
For this reason, farmers in developing nations currently plant more biotech-improved seeds than industrial nations. Furthermore, despite the ongoing effort to discourage them, farmers in Africa are now frontrunners in the global GMO race.
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The difference between these farmers and the rest of the world entangled in the GM debate is that, other than choosing to believe what the media portrays, they are willing to call these claims to question. In reality, those willing to push against the grain can more easily develop a better understanding, and therefore a better ability to learn and advance faster.
