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Rethinking
green revolution program: The impact of Mozambique’s
fast-track green revolution program on the environment and
animal rights
Munyaradzi Mawere
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of
Social Sciences, Universidade Pedagogica, Mozambique.
E-mail: munhamanuel@yahoo.com.br.
Accepted
14 May, 2010 |
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The green revolution program (GRP) in
Mozambique has taken centre stage in academic circles, and
academics and researchers have tussled with various aspects
of this subject. While the GRP is meant to reduce the
country’s food insecurity and was successfully implemented
in some countries like India (Arundhati, 2004), the results
have been different in many African countries. In
Mozambique, GRP has dramatically impacted on the rights of
non-human animals and the physical environment. Using
selected cases of environmental upsets and violation of
animal rights drawn from Mozambique’s print media and
academic literature, the negative impact of fast track green
revolution program in Mozambique on the rights of non-human
animals and the environment was examined. The article thus,
examines how the environment has been upset and non-human
animal rights to life and unhindered access to space of
habitation have been violated in the name of GRP in
Mozambique. Towards this end, a framework is presented for
studying environmental practices that impact on how
knowledge, ideas and values with respect to non-human animal
rights should be transmitted and developed from one
generation to another for the good and posterity of the
physical environment and non-human animals.
Key
words:
Rethinking, green revolution program, Mozambique,
environment, animal rights. |
