Excerpt from a New York Times article, "Foundations Join in Africa Agriculture Push"

September 13, 2006

By STEPHANIE STROM

"Critics of the Green Revolution have condemned it on a variety of grounds, among them that it has had a harmful effect on animal life and the environment with pesticides it has introduced and that it promotes capitalist market systems."

“Narrowly focusing on increasing production — as the Green Revolution does — cannot alleviate hunger because it fails to alter the tightly concentrated distribution of economic power, especially access to land and purchasing power,” Peter M. Rosset wrote in 2000, when he was executive director of Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy."

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