Burkina Faso's decision to drop GM cotton and the law of unintended consequences

The Ecologist
Feb 9, 2016, 2:18 pm92 pts
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,…

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