Language: English
Publication Year: 2019
or the past 50 years, Daisy Namusoke has grown crops on her small plot of land in the
Buikwe District of Central Uganda, mostly to feed her husband, five children, and two
grandchildren. Like most smallholder farmers in Africa, she grows a mix of crops, relies
on saved seeds and those purchased from local sources, and uses little by way of external inputs,
such as synthetic fertilizers.
Her struggles are also typical. Pests perpetually threaten her family’s food security and the
meager income she earns from selling bananas to local traders. She does her best to halt the
infestations by spraying a!ected areas with a concoction of Tithonia leaves mixed with wood and water. But it’s a battle she rarely wins: infestations regularly raise the specter of total crop
loss.
Bt , GMO
Combatting Misinformation , Food Security
Agricultural Biotechnology
Uganda, GMO, Biotech seeds, Africa, Advocacy
06 May 2019
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