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Despite strong tensions, organic agriculture and the agro-industrial model have so far managed to find a way of coexisting. But what if green farming completely replaced conventional farming? It would be an economic disaster and this is confirmed by the case of Sri Lanka, says Cecilia González, a biotechnology engineer. Latin American countries are not protected from taking that path, warns our guest.
Some Latin American countries are increasingly opting for the organic agriculture model, although not in such a radical way, for the time being.
In Mexico, for example, President López Obrador announced in 2020 that by 2024 there would be no more imports of GMO corn. In practice, however, the Mexican government has done little in these two years to achieve that goal.
But we must not rule out a significant increase in food prices in that country, in particular corn tortillas, due to the generalization of organic agriculture, says Bolivian biotechnologist Cecilia González.
She also warns about the dangers of insisting on a romantic policy that only wants to impose the organic.
From the other side, on the other hand, the lucrative business behind the development of genetically modified seeds by private companies is denounced.
This is the position of our second guest: the professor at UNAM in Mexico, the Swedish-Mexican Malin Jönsson, coordinator of the Semillas de Vida Foundation, an association that promotes Mexican Creole corn.
We also interviewed the journalist Perla Miranda from our associated radio station Imer, also in Mexico. She referred to the consumer’s perspective in relation to the products of these two types of agriculture.
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