The GLP aggregated
and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and
analysis. The world population is
expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050, and according
to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), if we
want to avoid mass malnutrition, we need to increase food production by 70
percent by 2050. Most of the land we can work for food is already being cultivated. That means we’re going to have to
make large-scale changes to how we farm.
The debate around GMO safety is overshadowed by an even more fundamental
question: Will genetic modification help feed 9 billion people? Joel Bourne,
agronomist and journalist, says that though herbicide-resistant and
pesticide-resistant GMOs have made farmers’ lives easier, “We haven’t seen
significant increases in corn, rice or wheat in the major breadbaskets of the
world since around the year 2000, and that’s of great concern.”....To Read More....
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