African activists, backed by wealthy supporters in the United States and Europe, are locked in combat over the merits of transgenic crops. Ehsan Masood tracks the people, the politics and the cash behind the campaigns. When Jocelyn Webster was askedby a South African reporter for her opinion on "genetically modified orgasms", she was exasperated but not surprised. For Webster, who heads the probiotech campaigning group AfricaBio, this question was just one more symptom of the endemic misunderstanding about transgenic technologies in Africa.
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