Starvation: Now or LaterA look at the GM food crisis in Zambia

Table of contents


The Situation 2
What would happen if they chose GM? 2
What will Zambia lose 3
Foreign Pressure against GM 4
The wrath of Biotech companies 4
Health risk? 5
What Happened in the end 6
Bibliography 8


Starvation: Now or later
The Situation

It is said to be the worst food-crisis in the last decade. Around 15.5 million people in danger of starving in Southern Africa and 3 to 4 million in Zambia alone. 28% of people in Zambia have no food or have been reduced to eating wild plants, cattle or even their dogs. But, there is a way out. USAID chief Andrew Natsios has said that the US is willing to donate 70%, or 500 000 tonnes, of the food needed to feed the starving people of Zambia, with Europe making up the rest of the donations.

This then seems like an easy and rather fast way out, but it is not the case. Zambia banned US food aid and has stopped handouts of food that has already been delivered to Zambia. One m...