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非洲食品主权联盟（AFSA），代表2亿小规模18beplay 生产者 - 以及来自40个国家的165个组织星期二致信to donors of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and other ‘Green Revolution’ organisations, urging them to redirect their support to African-led agroecology and low-input farming systems.

1950年代至1970年代的绿色革命通过增加投入的使用（肥料，农药和灌溉）来加强农业。beplay下载官网西西软件

“Only a very small amount of money is flowing into Africa for research. Government funders tend to give the money to western-based research institutes, that is a sad fact.”

百万贝雷，AFSA联合创始人

“Farmers all over Africa have shown far more promising results sharing knowledge and working with scientists to establish low-input farming methods that leave the control of production in the hands of African farmers,” the letter states.

AGRA’sfunders includeBill＆Melinda Gates基金会，洛克菲勒基金会以及美国，英国和德国的政府。该计划为非洲农民提供了购买商业种子（例如玉米）以及肥料的补贴，以帮助提高产量。它还为其13个合作伙伴国家提供了研究工作。

AFSA co-founder Million Belay said that access to such funding was often claimed as one of the benefits of AGRA. “But only a very small amount of money is flowing into Africa for research,” he said. “Government funders tend to give the money to western-based research institutes, that is a sad fact.”

总部位于尼日利亚的尼日利亚健康基金会执行董事Nnimmo Bassey表示，这种试图将知识带到非洲而不是依靠当地专业知识的心态未能解决非洲大陆上的农业问题。beplay下载官网西西软件

他告诉他：“阿格拉或类似组织没有非洲政府或国家的知识。”scidev.net。“阿格拉对非洲的了解不多，而不是非洲人。The very problem with these messianic interventions is a lack of respect for knowledge available in their areas of interest.”

阿格拉没有回应scidev.net提出评论的请求。

The COVID-19 pandemic hasexacerbated hunger and malnutrition, with 21 per cent of the African population undernourished, according to the UN. Mariann Bassey-Orovwuje, a programme manager for Friends of the Earth Africa, said that low-intensive, small-scale farming of local crops had proven to be the best way of preventing hunger.

A spokesperson for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said: “We share AGRA’s view that there are many paths to sustainably increasing smallholder farmers’ productivity and incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. We support organisations like AGRA because they partner with countries to help them implement the priorities and policies contained in their national agricultural development strategies.”

A spokeswoman for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development said the ministry was “taking seriously the criticisms of AGRA” and had demanded “stringent monitoring and valid accounting” within the organisation.

“The German government fundamentally supports the central tasks of AGRA, including transforming smallholder farming and value chains, and increasing farm productivity to meet the needs of a growing population and improve food security,” she said. “The ministry has advocated for environmental sustainability since the start of AGRA, this is part of our funding agreement.”

她说，该部意识到批评，包括关于密集农业的负面影响的主张，例如单一文化和债务，但“没有看到任何证据表明，这些负面影响都在我们在布基纳法索和加纳资助的项目中产生了任何影响。”。

她驳斥了阿夫萨（AFSA）的说法，即上升的饥饿与阿格拉（Agra）的方法有关，理由是“政治框架，人口不断增长，气候变化和区域冲突”是其他因素。

AGRA is holding its年度非洲绿色革命论坛本周，在此期间，它汇集了其资助者和接收者。该组织还将在9月23日开始的联合国食品系统峰会上代表。AFSA支持者说，他们将在峰会上陈述他们的案件。

This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Global desk.