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Can the IMF implement
the cultivation of GMO corps in war stricken Ukraine? Isn’t the cultivation of
GMO corps is banned in Ukraine?
According
to Natural
News, on July 28, the California-based Oakland Institute released a
report revealing that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, would open that country to
genetically modified (GM) crops and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in
agriculture. The report is entitled "Walking on the West Side: the World
Bank and the IMF in the Ukraine Conflict."
As
per CounterPunch, in late 2013, Viktor Yanukovych, who was then
president of Ukraine, turned down an agreement with the European Union that was
tied to a $17 billion International Monetary Fund loan; the terms of that
agreement are just now becoming known.
Instead,
the Ukrainian leader chose an aid package from Russia which amounted to about
$15 billion, in addition to a discount on Russian natural gas (Ukraine gets
nearly all of its natural gas from Russia, the CIA notes). Frederic Mousseau,
Policy Directory of the Oakland Institute and co-author of "Walking on the
West Side," reported that the discount was 33 percent.
In
any event, that decision was a major element of the ensuing deadly protests
that eventually led to his ouster from office in February of this year, and the
current crisis with Moscow.
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In a
column for Inter Press Service, Mousseau wrote:
“Whereas Ukraine does not allow the use of
genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture, Article 404 of the EU
agreement, which relates to agriculture, includes a clause that has generally
gone unnoticed: both parties will cooperate to extend the use of
biotechnologies.”
In a
report for Al Jazeera, Mousseau and Marin Kirk wrote:
There is no doubt that this provision meets
the expectations of the agribusiness industry. As observed by Michael Cox,
research director at the investment bank Piper Jaffray, "Ukraine and, to a
wider extent, Eastern Europe, are among the most promising growth markets for
farm-equipment giant Deere, as well as seed producers Monsanto and
DuPont."
Under
Ukrainian law, farmers are banned from growing GM crops in the country's rich
black soil, which is more than favorable for growing grains; in 2012, Ukrainian
farmers harvested more than 20 million tonnes of corn, Counterpunch reported.
To
see some fascinating and interesting clips regarding the truth about the IMF’s
decision to grow GMO crops in the rich black soil of Ukraine, one can easily
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