African Poverty Linked to Agricultural Technology

People in Africa are poor because their labor as farmers has not yet been improved by science, including modern biotechnology. That's the overall conclusion of a new book by Wellesley College professor of political science Robert Paarlberg. He says U.S. foreign assistance to agricultural science in Africa has fallen by 75 percent in the past two decades, he notes, and the foreign assistance of European governments is now often predicated on staying away from modern agricultural science.