The Paradox of Bread Basket Starving Ethiopia

The Paradox of Bread Basket Starving Ethiopia Six months after Chodussovsky published his article on Globalresearch.ca, it became public knowledge that the unique Ethiopian barley was benefiting many nations although Ethiopians were kept in the dark about their own resource. On February 8, 2001, the PanAfrican News Agency (PANA) from Dakar tells the world that "seeds from starving Ethiopia give America abundant yields." PANA reports: "It may sound paradoxical, as informed sources at the Global Environment Facility (GEF) assert, starving Ethiopia could well pass for the worlds seeds basket."

Ethiopian scientists including Girma Hailu and Awegechew Teshome have concurred with Chodussovsky on the enigma of the Ethiopian barley. As per PANA, "according to Girma Hailu, a former US State Department Regional Environmental Specialist for East Africa, germ plasma capable of resisting the gene of the Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) is thought to have been collected from the Ethiopian collection and introduced into the genetic material of California in the 1960s