Over 100,000 Burkina Faso farmers were pleased with Monsanto's yield-boosting Bt cotton, write Brian Dowd-Uribe & Matthew Schnurr. But not the companies that had to buy the crop at a fixed government-set price. The shorter fibres produced by Bt varieties led to less lint being extracted, and of lower quality, making it a lose-lose proposition for the country's most important industry.
Burkina Faso's decision to drop GM cotton and the law of unintended consequences Brian Dowd-Uribe Matthew Schnurr | 9th February 2016 Comment GMOs Africa Burkina Faso Farming …