"Since the launching of the renewal, the CGIAR has emphasized a new
research agenda aimed at promoting a sustainable agriculture for food
security and poverty alleviation in the developing world (LDCs). In
various declarations and published materials there is constant mentions of
new technological breakthroughs developed by the IARCs that will have a
more positive impact on the poor of the LDCs. [...]To many NGOs and other
critics of the past Green Revolution, however, there is concern that by
engaging in biotechnology, the CGIAR s underlying goals remain the same as
in the past, emphasizing yield increases through intensive agriculture,
but this time aided by biotechnology (narrowly conceived as genetic
engineering). By strongly endorsing biotechnology as the main strategy for
agricultural production enhancement, the CGIAR will alienate much of the
NGO community (and also many farmers organizations) who will consider that
the CGIAR s real intentions are that of a Green Revolution replay by
>spearheading research into genetic engineering of crops."