December 8, 2004
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and products are being imposed on Kenya to the detriment of the environment and human health, a visiting Korean scholar says.
The country is not being given the opportunity to freely choose from a range of biotechnological options by competing multinational firms, explains Prof Soon-Kwon Kim, pictured left.
Kenya’s region comparative advantage as a research hub and a highly skilled source of manpower, Prof Soon noted, had lately been exploited to make the country an experimental laboratory for all forms of Western technology.
Cautioning the country against being duped into blindly adopting technologies that were little understood, the don nonetheless pointed out that Kenya promises to be a development model for sub-Saharan Africa.
Now working at the Kyungpook National University’s International Agricultural Research Institute, he is currently in Kenya at the invitation of President Kibaki to assist in the fight against hunger.
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