I HATE working at weekends. But this is one assignment I’m glad I took. On a dank Saturday evening back in January, I agreed to meet a group of African biotechnologists. They were in Europe to persuade anyone who’d listen that Africa has a lot to gain from agricultural biotechnology, even if Europe hasn’t.
The backdrop to our meeting was an ongoing controversy about whether famine-threatened African countries should accept shipments of food aid from the US when the maize supplied had not been segregated into GM and non-GM consignments. Over the past months Zimbabwe and then Zambia had opted…
