Introduction 2 a developed world conservation paradigm 2

The pesticide problem

Researchers in Bangladesh, when they produced a range of insect-resistant eggplants, or eggplants as they are called in South Asia, 2014, helped minimize the use of insecticides by small farmers. - Provided that political leaders such as Matia Chowdhury, the Bangladeshi Minister of Agriculture, should be accepted and put on the market. Farmers who spray their eggplants twice a day have now cut their pesticide use by up to 80%. This means a healthy farmer, a healthier climate, healthier customers, and smallholders with significant cost savings. Farmers can afford to properly feed and grow their families with the extra money raised from their harvest of pesticide-free GMO eggplants, which can further help break the cycle of poverty. (Zaller¸2020).

The thirsty plant's problem

East African researchers such as plant breeder Elizma Joubert and entomologist Regina Tende are part of the Water Productive Maize for Africa (WEMA) global public-private collaboration. They grow genetically engineered maize that is immune to insects and survives in a small quantity of water. This is becoming extremely difficult because, for many farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, where maize is an important staple food, drought has become the new standard. WEMA is now commercially produced in South Africa and has been successfully tested in Kenya and Uganda in this region. The first GMO field trial was recently performed in Tanzania, and the drought-tolerant WEMA showed good results. (Gosa, 2019).