13 Sep 2011The United States has survived its debt-ceiling showdown, but it found an extra million (Sh1.58 billion) for famine relief in East Africa.
This new commitment boosts the amount of aid for Ethiopia, Somalia and my country Kenya to more than 0 million (Sh54 billion) this year. The aid will reach 4.6 million people.
The long-term solution to our perennial problem is that we must start to “break the cycle” of food shortages, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, so that we can support ourselves.
We must accept 21st century agricultural methods, including biotechnology and modern fertilisers, as the best way for farmers to increase their yields and start to make it possible for the continent to feed itself.
http://greenbio.checkbiotech.org/news/biotechnology_answer_food_shortages
