In 2000, farmers in Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton grower, were desperate.
Their cotton fetched top prices because its high-quality fibre lent a luxurious sheen to clothing and bedsheets. But pests , bollworms were threatening the crop.
Even when you dropped the bollworm larvae into a bucket of poison, farmers said, they kept swimming.
U.S. agro-chemical company Monsanto proposed an answer: a genetically modified strain of cotton called Bollgard II, which it had already been introduced in…
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