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Originally Posted by Shek
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I agree that the way to go would be to raise commercial investment in agriculture as well as do away with the (current) charade(s) of bio-fules and bans against GM food. However there also has to be a realisation that commercial investment in agriculture in some parts of the world is a highly politically charged issue. That is one f the ways in which colonialism progressed through some of these countries. It is also not possible to simply take away land from peasants in democratic countries like India, we are not China after all.
A lot of work needs to be done by economists/ policiticians/ agriculturists to show the value of technology intensie farming to the common 3rd world farmer. Even coopearative farming societies would be better than the way things operate currently.