Pablo Manzano Baena

Rangeland Ecologist with more than 15 years’ experience in pastoralism. Starting with ecological research in Spain, then moved into social, legal and economic issues by collaborating with NGOs and the government locally, and later working on rural sustainable development issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Working globally for the last eight years, first coordinating the World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism at IUCN in Kenya, and later the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub at FAO in Italy. Currently working from Nairobi as an international consultant on livestock development and conservation issues, and also supporting pastoralist advocacy.

GMOs: What we got wrong
Environment, Pablo Manzano Baena, Translation

GMOs: What we got wrong

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A more critical argument in societies with a lack of environmental awareness such as ours is that of food sovereignty. Since genetically modified organisms are always developed by megacorporations, the farmers lose control over the means of production and end up doomed to poverty and subject to market fluctuations in order to acquire the subsistence goods. This can bring periods of prosperity, but also of malnutrition, poverty and migration to impoverished slums. Only the richest survive.