Picture: Liam Condon (C -Bayer AG)
Andrea Germanos writes at Common Dreams:
Environmental groups are slamming a call for a “Greener Revolution” from a corporation they call a “purveyor of poison” as a plan for corporate profits above the needs of farmers and the environment, when the kind of real revolution needed in agriculture lies outside of the very agribusinesses that created the problems we have.
Liam Condon, CEO of Bayer CropScience, issued his call at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin this month, offering a five-pronged approach to this Greener Revolution that includes billions of dollars in investment in “cutting-edge chemistry” and “new areas of innovation.”
“It is crucial that we pursue all available technologies to make a sustainable difference in helping to ensure food security,” Condon stated.
At the AGCO Africa Summit, also in Berlin, held days after the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Christian Asboth, Senior Vice President for Africa, Middle East and CIS at Bayer CropScience reiterated the company’s technology and stressed it had the know-how Africa needs.
