"We don't need to grow more food to cut hunger in Africa" - activist
TURIN, Italy (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a young university student of agriculture, Edie Mukiibi believed the latest hybrid seeds which promised bumper crops were the answer to improving the lot of maize farmers in his part of Uganda.   He persuaded many to buy the seeds, while working part-time promoting them in Kiboga district in central Uganda.    But the consequences were "terrible", he said. It was 2007, a year of drought, and the new seeds turned out to be less resilient than tradi
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