Does Africa Need Political Will to Overcome Impediments to GM Crop Biotechnology Applications for Agricultural Economic Growth and Development, as in the Case of Brazil, Argentina, and India?

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a chronically food-insecure region, exacerbated by increasing population and the resulting decline in the size of arable land holdings, declining soil fertility, intractable pests and diseases, climate change phenomena (drought and floods), social conflicts, and the lack of a generally enabling policy environment for agriculture.