Technology for Life: How Biotech Will Save Billions from Starvation. C.S. Prakash and Gregory Conko.
by Prakash, C.S; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 52Health. Publisher: American Enterprise, 2004ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Agricultural biotechnology | Food -- Biotechnology | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na | Food supply -- Forecasting | Genetically modified foods | Green Revolution | Population forecasting | Technological innovationsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Leading scientists around the world have attested to the health and environmental safety of agricultural biotechnology, and they have called for bioengineered crops to be extended to those who need them most--hungry people in the developing world." (AMERICAN ENTERPRISE) This article reports that "the biggest threats that hungry populations currently face are restrictive policies stemming from unwarranted public fears" about agricultural biotechnology and stresses that the use of biotechnology will be necessary to feed the growing population in the poorest regions of the world over the next 50 years.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Technology for Life: How Biotech Will Save Billions from Starvation, March 2004; pp. 16-20.
"Leading scientists around the world have attested to the health and environmental safety of agricultural biotechnology, and they have called for bioengineered crops to be extended to those who need them most--hungry people in the developing world." (AMERICAN ENTERPRISE) This article reports that "the biggest threats that hungry populations currently face are restrictive policies stemming from unwarranted public fears" about agricultural biotechnology and stresses that the use of biotechnology will be necessary to feed the growing population in the poorest regions of the world over the next 50 years.
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