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Last year. . . Burkina Faso produced a record 707,000 tons of cotton. . . .
. . . . [C]otton companies that have questioned the quality of the cotton saying that the fibre length of the cotton from the GM varieties is too short. This issue . . . can be rectified . . . using varieties with longer fibres together with the insect resistance gene. Burkina Faso is now conducting field trials on the next generation of insect resistant GM cotton. . .
Yet the headlines. . . mostly highlight that Burkina Faso, once a strong supporter of GM technology, is . . . “abandoning” the technology. . . What is also concerning is the use of this story to influence the EU not to support the introduction of GMOs in Africa, in a resolution criticising the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
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. . . [S]ome MEPs urged “the G8 member states not to support GMO crops in Africa” in their resolution. . . . Should European politicians be making decisions that will mean new GM varieties such as drought resistant maize will not be commercialized in the countries that need them the most?
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