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| You already answered that. It's because we are getting subsidies!
Here's a link to your article:
http://www.diversityworking.com/career/Science_and_Research/Alabama...
This comes right from your article "The best way for the US and Europe to encourage poor countries to embrace modern biotechnology is to guarantee them ready market for their farm produce. Removing farm subsidies is the first step towards achieving this goal. "
Well, I don't taking subsidies away from American farmers is going to help African farmers one bit, though it will cause a lot of pain here. The land will still be farmed and farmers will still grow all they can.
The real cause of cheap farm product prices is the technology that increases production faster than demand can keep up, especially given the inelastic market fundamentals inherent to farm products.
By the way, I wonder if the African farmers want to have Monsanto as their new landlord and pay yearly tech fees like a lot of farmers here in the US are now doing.
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Africa and genetically modified food
