Stuck in inefficient government R&D & regulation, market-oriented reform is the most fertile ground for China’s next agricultural breakthrough, says a business-backed, non-govt thinktank on biotech.
Seeds are not an industry and making China reliant on GMO foods or one use seeds made by multinationals would be a terrible mistake. I do not see a discussion about the real dangers of GMOs and their use by multinationals to create dangerous dependency anywhere here.
Food sovereignty is not a bad thing, but in particular keeping bad actors like Bayer/Monsanto out of one's food system is to be commended. The problem with governments is they love power, the problem with corporations is they love the power to profit, particularly monopoly, even if that requires destroying the ecology that sustains life.
Governments love to regulate. They love to license. They look after their own. They think they back winners but it rarely turns out that way. The struggle to increase productivity is the struggle against government permitting.
Seeds are not an industry and making China reliant on GMO foods or one use seeds made by multinationals would be a terrible mistake. I do not see a discussion about the real dangers of GMOs and their use by multinationals to create dangerous dependency anywhere here.
Food sovereignty is not a bad thing, but in particular keeping bad actors like Bayer/Monsanto out of one's food system is to be commended. The problem with governments is they love power, the problem with corporations is they love the power to profit, particularly monopoly, even if that requires destroying the ecology that sustains life.
This situation illuminates the general problem of "Material Forces that Turn Socialism into Capitalism," an essay at
www.academia.edu/100467493/Material_Forces_that_Turn_Socialism_into_Capitalism
Governments love to regulate. They love to license. They look after their own. They think they back winners but it rarely turns out that way. The struggle to increase productivity is the struggle against government permitting.