Between Famine And Politics, Zambians Starve
Charter Cable Broadband About all Josephine Namangolwa has left in her hungry, weary body is anger, and in an instant it all comes surging out. It has been days since she had a nourishing meal to feed her eight children, victims, like millions of other Zambians, of the deepening food shortage that is sweeping southern Africa. Yet before her eyes stand sacks and sacks of untouched and for now untouchable cornmeal, which has been the foundation of the Zambian diet for generations and is currently at the center of a scientific and diplomatic debate over genetically modified food.
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Internet Web Hosting "We are dying here," she shouts as aid workers arrive in her village of Chipapa to check on their warehouse and the nearly 500 metric tons of cornmeal stored inside, all of it from the United States and some of it almost certainly from genetically engineered crops. "We want to eat."
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Comcast Cable Broadband For now, however, she and the rest of the hungry in Zambia will not be eating any of the food from Chipapa, or any of the thousands of tons of additional food being shipped to the region from the United States.
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Time Warner Cable Broadband President Levy Mwanawasa has banned the distribution of food produced with genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.'s, laying down a hard line in a debate that has gripped the region for weeks.
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Verizon Broadband Dsl The president, along with close advisers and sympathetic scientists, has expressed a number of concerns about G.M.O.'s. Health is one; trade relations with the European Union and the United States is another.
Sbc Dsl Internet Genetically engineered corn is shipped in two forms, as unmilled kernels and as cornmeal. Zambian officials worry that the kernels might be used as seed, producing genetically modified corn that would cross-pollinate with nonmodified varieties. This would jeopardize Zambian exports to the European Union, which requires all genetically modified products to be so labeled.
Broadband Phone Cable A number of people following the debate say that it has at some level turned into an undeclared trade dispute between the European Union with its powerful environmental activists and the United States and its influential biotechnology industry.
Cable Modem Vs Adsl With millions of lives in the balance, neither side wants it to look that way, and both have gone to great lengths to keep the trade issue out of the public debate. In a statement today, the European Union mission here all but encouraged Zambia to accept the modified corn, saying that milling would allay its concerns about exports from the country.
Dsl Broadband Providers But even if the incoming corn were milled into cornmeal, eliminating the risk to the Zambian agriculture industry, the government remained concerned about the suitability of the food for human consumption.
Cable Broadband Service "I have been told it is not safe," the minister of agriculture, Mundia Sikatana, said in an interview.
Dsl Broadband Services Asked if he believes such foods are poisonous, Mr. Sikatana said the studies he had read had led him to that conclusion. "What else would you call an allergy caused by a substance? That substance that the person reacts to is poisonous."
Dsl Broadband Modem All of the talk of toxins and trade has confused many local people, while frustrating the United Nations World Food Program and angering Washington, which is supplying about three-quarters of the food for the W.F.P.'s operations in the region.
Broadband High Speed Internet The W.F.P., which is feeding just over a million Zambians now, expects to be feeding about 2.5 million by the end of the year.
Dial Up Internet At the moment, the agency says it has only about 7,000 metric tons of food, or some two weeks worth, approved and available for distribution. About 14,000 tons already in the country, some already milled, some still whole grain, have been frozen by the president's edict. Far larger shipments on the way face the same fate unless Mr. Mwanawasa changes his mind.
Cable Internet Isp In an indication of the matter's urgency, Andrew S. Natsios, the head of the United States Agency for International Development, met with Mr. Mwanawasa this week to urge him to accept the corn and to offer Zambia assistance in assuring that the food is indeed safe.
Cable Broadband Access In an effort to ease Zambia's doubts about the safety of the foods, the agency has offered to fly Zambian scientists to the United States to meet with government and academic researchers. Mr. Natsios maintained that Mr. Mwanawasa was open to the offer and the possibility that it might yield a solution.
Internet Service Providers "I think he wants more information," Mr. Natsios said. "There's no commitment to change, but I don't think this story is at an end."
Broadband Service Providers Mr. Sikatana said the government has made its decision and can meet the country's needs without American aid. Efforts to bring hundreds of thousands of tons of corn from elsewhere are underway, and Mr. Sikatana said no Zambian will starve.
Dsl And Broadband With each passing day, however, the fates of millions of hungry people around Zambia grow more dire.
Aol Broadband Dsl Loveness Malupande, who lives not far from Chipapa, in the village of Kabweza, with an extended family of about 24, said her family had sold off all but two of the 20 cattle they had, all to buy stopgap supplies of food, which have since run out. For now, the family is left to scavenge. "We go out in the bush and look for wild roots," she says.
Broadband Internet Service One of her relatives, Cliff Malambo, 27, said he had heard about the food at the warehouse in Chipapa. "They have said that the food is not good for us, but we don't know," he said. "They don't explain."
Broadband Cable Modem Many Zambians question the government's statements and wonder why friends who received the American corn before the ban went into effect have not died. Others applaud the government's vigilance. Almost all of them are somewhat befuddled.
Cable Broadband "People ask me if it's safe," Steven Grabiner, who runs the Riverside Development Agency, a church-affiliated charity, said. "I say, `Yes, I think it is. If you make me a bowl I'll eat it."'
Dsl Broadband Foods produced from crops engineered to be more resistant to worms, for example, are now widely consumed in the United States less than a decade after such products first entered the market. By many accounts, they have made American agriculture more productive, but they have also brought controversy.
Broad Band Internet A number of scientists and consumer advocates argue the effects of genetic engineering on both the environment and consumers have not been adequately examined. Yet, years of extensive testing have not turned up any findings that would suggest such foods are not safe for humans, Marc Cohen, an analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, said.
Broadband Cable Splitter While genetically engineered food has almost certainly found its way into Zambia for several years, through international aid or through imports from South Africa, which produces genetically modified crops, the scale was always small and never attracted attention. But the volume of food being brought in for the relief operation is huge, aimed at feeding 13 million people across six countries, and red flags went up.
Adsl Vs Dsl Mozambique and Zimbabwe at first joined Zambia in resisting the geneticaly modified corn, particularly out of concerns over cross-pollination. Ultimately, Mozambique and Zimbabwe decided to mill the corn before bringing it into the country, eliminating the potential threat to their agricultural sectors.
Dsl Vs Broadband Zambia so far has balked at milling in part because of the cost, which at $25 a ton is not an inconsequential expense for one of the poorest countries in the world.
Broadband Adsl Cable Critics of the government say that officials were late drafting a comprehensive policy on genetic engineering and were nowbuying time to try to form one.
Dial Up Broadband "We should be confining our debate in this hour of emergency to corn," said John W. K. Clayton, president of the Zambia National Farmers' Union. "We don't have the luxury of time to launch into broadranging debate on this issue."
Cable Dsl Broadband "This is the work of the politicians," Ms. Namangolwa said as she looked in on the stockpile of corn. "This meal is O.K. They are not helping us. They are killing us."
Dsl Broadband Speed By Henri E. Cayvin
New York Times - 8/30/2002
Topic: Genetic Engineering
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