US accused of pushing GM cassava for biofuels from Africa

In a saga that has been raging for a while now, controversy has deepened over a multi-million dollar USAid-supported cassava research programme, which proponents had said would help boost millions of East Africans’ food security, but which critics have dismissed as an attempt by the United States to develop alternative sources of starch overseas, from which to make ethanol. Once the GM crop would have been introduced, African farmers would have become dependent on the American companies that commercialise the variety (the story of Roundup Ready Soya is well known). But now it is revealed that the prestigious USAid biotech project has failed.
Biopact.com.