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From: PAEPARD@dgroups.org [mailto:PAEPARD@dgroups.org] On Behalf Of Mick Mwala
Sent: 16 July 2019 15:50
To: Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development Phase II (PAEPARD II) <PAEPARD@dgroups.org>
Subject: [paepard] Response to Gates
Good opinion but could have been balanced by simply advocating for diversity in cropping and therefore nutrition. Noneed to single out maize and therefore CIMMYT and Africa! By the way what is the staple food for France? Potatoes or Rice? Maybe we tell IRRI and/or CIP to take heed also!!! I think this is unnecessary rather lets advocate for diversity in cultivation! This I buy after all my parents and grandparents always cultivated a diverse of crops!
Viva CIMMYT for addressing the CC cahhalenges for our staple food!
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:36 PM Rémi Kahane <remi.kahane@cirad.fr <mailto:remi.kahane@cirad.fr> > wrote:
The principle adopted by Gates to validate the research approach of the CGIAR, is made of external high tech and solutions outside the traditional environment of most African farmers. The choice of maize to feed the planet is dramatic, since it imposes a uniform diet poorly nutritious, a plant that is not well adapted to most regions and definitely not to climate hazards, and a top down cropping model. Is it necessary to keep on maize to develop sustainable agriculture in Africa? Couldn't international research invest in more nutritious, more diverse and better adapted crops that would address food and nutrition security, food sovereignty, and give more economic opportunities to African farmers, at local and regional levels? I strongly believe that the sustainable development of Africa relies on its biodiversity - number of indigenous legumes, cereals, roots and tubers, fruit and vegetables, spices and medicinal plants, and their cohort of auxillary fauna, flora and microorganisms - rather than on 150 drought tolerant maize species. It is time for CIMMYT and ICARDA to change their paradigm and collaborate on agroecology and agroforestry with the international and the local communities, making value of all types of knowledge sharing.
This is what I learned from PAEPARD 10 years experience and partnership.
Le 13/07/2019 à 09:22, rogerleakey@btinternet.com <mailto:rogerleakey@btinternet.com> a écrit :
Ref: http://paepard.blogspot.com/2019/07/gates-on-cgiar-feeding-our-future.h…
I attach a reaction to Bill Gates
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Roger
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From: PAEPARD@dgroups.org [mailto:PAEPARD@dgroups.org] On Behalf Of Mick Mwala
Sent: 16 July 2019 15:50
To: Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development Phase II (PAEPARD II) <PAEPARD@dgroups.org>
Subject: [paepard] Response to Gates
Good opinion but could have been balanced by simply advocating for diversity in cropping and therefore nutrition. Noneed to single out maize and therefore CIMMYT and Africa! By the way what is the staple food for France? Potatoes or Rice? Maybe we tell IRRI and/or CIP to take heed also!!! I think this is unnecessary rather lets advocate for diversity in cultivation! This I buy after all my parents and grandparents always cultivated a diverse of crops!
Viva CIMMYT for addressing the CC cahhalenges for our staple food!
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:36 PM Rémi Kahane <remi.kahane@cirad.fr <mailto:remi.kahane@cirad.fr> > wrote:
The principle adopted by Gates to validate the research approach of the CGIAR, is made of external high tech and solutions outside the traditional environment of most African farmers. The choice of maize to feed the planet is dramatic, since it imposes a uniform diet poorly nutritious, a plant that is not well adapted to most regions and definitely not to climate hazards, and a top down cropping model. Is it necessary to keep on maize to develop sustainable agriculture in Africa? Couldn't international research invest in more nutritious, more diverse and better adapted crops that would address food and nutrition security, food sovereignty, and give more economic opportunities to African farmers, at local and regional levels? I strongly believe that the sustainable development of Africa relies on its biodiversity - number of indigenous legumes, cereals, roots and tubers, fruit and vegetables, spices and medicinal plants, and their cohort of auxillary fauna, flora and microorganisms - rather than on 150 drought tolerant maize species. It is time for CIMMYT and ICARDA to change their paradigm and collaborate on agroecology and agroforestry with the international and the local communities, making value of all types of knowledge sharing.
This is what I learned from PAEPARD 10 years experience and partnership.
Le 13/07/2019 à 09:22, rogerleakey@btinternet.com <mailto:rogerleakey@btinternet.com> a écrit :
Ref: http://paepard.blogspot.com/2019/07/gates-on-cgiar-feeding-our-future.h…
I attach a reaction to Bill Gates
Best wishes
Roger
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