A Global Analysis: Is Biotechnology Really the Only Way to Solve Hunger?
As the World Summit on Food Security convenes in Rome this week, world leaders will debate how best to combat worsening worldwide hunger and escalating food prices. Biotechnology will most certainly be on the table.
As a polarizing subject, biotechnology has no peer.
On the one hand, it has potential to raise crop yields, increase the nutrient value in food and speed up traditional plant breeding through marker-assisted selection, a biotechnology that does not mix genes of different species.
On the other hand, biotechnology is generally …
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