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...recognized more economic rights in 1977, food production increased at 12 percent per year, persisting in growth despite poor weather in 1980. After a devastating 1983 famine, African nations forsaking “social rights” policies for private ownership saw an immediate food production surge, including Zaire, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar and others...
...Mugabe was in Paris at the Franco-African summit, hobnobbing with other leaders and enjoying, thanks to his hosts, the temporary suspension of his E.U. travel ban. Most Zimbabweans didn't notice he was gone. Nor did they when he jetted off to Southeast Asia on vacation or to Zambia for a meeting or to Libya to visit his friend Muammar Gaddafi. People are busy with other worries, like what to feed the family. You might only notice when Mugabe's convoy - jeeploads of soldiers and that shiny black Mercedes - speeds by on its way to the airport...
...When Zambia ran short of food in 2002, it appealed to the World Food Program (WFP) to help it gather food donations from richer countries. The U.S., as a member nation of the WFP, offered a large shipment of corn and maize to Zambia, which was gratefully accepted. However, when asked for a guarantee that the corn had not been genetically modified, the U.S. first refused to provide the information, and then finally admitted that the entire shipment was genetically modified. This corn was not only meant for food consumption, but was shipped as seeds to be planted by Zambian...
...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...
...example of the European double-agenda, the journal Science reported last month that the government of Zambia rejected a shipment of corn from the U.S. because it likely contained genetically modified kernels. Much of the food grown in the U.S. has been modified with genes from other organisms. For example, some types of corn have a protein from a bacteria that kills insects. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not documented that the corn has any toxic effects in humans. Nevertheless, the absence of evidence that the corn is “safe” has led activists...