Why Gaza Doesn’t Need Monsanto’s Wonder Seeds | Mother Jones
►http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/08/gaza-monsanto-wonder-seeds
So what are Palestinian farmers doing? According to The Guardian, they’re turning to a technology that has been proven to conserve water, recycle crop nutrients, and generate robust yields: diversified organic agriculture. The newspaper quotes an official from the UN’s Gaza emergency food program:
In so many other places, this is terribly trendy and green. But in Gaza the resource scarcity is so bad this is actually becoming a necessity.
Where organic ag has taken root, The Guardian reports, food security has been bolstered and dependence on food aid for survival has decreased.
Sujet original, billet particulièrement intéressant.