The United Nations’ food agency endorsed biotechnology Monday as a promising way to improve farming around the world, but complained the technology is still not designed to meet the needs of poor countries.
The FAO expects the world’s population to grow to 8 billion by 2030 and said food production must increase by 60% to feed the world. The agency said biotechnology can help meet that demand, but warned it was no panacea for world hunger. Further, the FAO concluded that poor farmers have seen little benefit so far because the Western corporations driving most of the field’s research have put their energies behind only four crops — corn, soy, cotton and canola — that aren’t widely grown in most Third World countries.
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