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...Conversations with Kirkland” discussion series was co-founded in 2002 by Kirkland resident scholar Peter Emerson and co-House Masters Tom C. Conley and Verena A. Conley. Guest speakers have included a variety of figures—from actor Richard Dreyfuss to the current president of Zambia??and all major 2008 presidential candidates are expected to speak...
...MEHEBA, Zambia??Jean Zawadi doesn’t look like a fighter at first glance. With her tightly twisted hair, colorful “chitenge” (skirt) and sorrowful eyes, Jean paints the picture of a powerless African refugee, rather than a crusader for justice. And because Jean is both of these things, she is now in serious danger.A few months ago, Jean’s fourteen-year-old daughter Dayaka was raped in Meheba Refugee Camp. She is now pregnant, out of school, and severely depressed. Her desperate mother has gone to the police, camp NGOs...
...about the potential costs of growing and disseminating G.M. foods, this doesn’t mean that the United States has a right to inflict it on other countries that may not be so sure, especially when those countries have very few other options. The recent food shortages in Zambia??and now in India—are a case in point...
...here the plot thickens. Zambia??s export economy is built around exports of grain to the European Union (E.U.), that region of skeptics that is deeply suspicious of G.M. foods. Quite apart from any potential health and environmental risks, forcing Zambia to accept genetically modified corn would cause its export economy to collapse: the E.U. would either refuse the corn altogether, or accept it, label it, and have consumers leave it on the shelf. And it’s not as if the U.S. was shipping Zambia the bargain-basement corn that nobody wanted—G.M. corn...
...Zambia??s economy depends on grain exports, most of which go to Europe. Currently, Zambia cultivates non-GM varieties of grain. If GM crops were planted in Zambia, cross-fertilization among crop strains would almost certainly cause Zambian grain harvests to contain at least some GM kernels. The presence of genetically altered grain in the nation’s harvest would prevent any Zambian grain from being shipped to European countries because of import bans on GM food, thus depriving Zambia of its principal export market and seriously damaging the long-term health of the Zambian agricultural economy...
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