Wednesday, August 12, 2009

How to ensure food for three billion people?

The world will in the next five decades, have three billion more mouths to give and it should now think about how to be the appropriate quantity of food to ensure the time, writes in today's edition of London "Indepedent.

List believes that genetically modified crops are one of the possibilities, because expected population growth means that the world will need to provide more food, but from limited resources.
Genetically modified maize, soybean and cotton in some parts of the world is grown almost a decade and are not known a serious health or environmental problems, says the British daily.

"Indipendent" but warns that in the related application of more genetically modified food, and has valid reasons for the cautious approach. Large corporations, such as the American "Monsanto", but made a large part of the research on genetskoj modifications, and their main goal is to increase the sales of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers prevaziđenih species.
"Too few are investing in ways to vaccines through genetic modifications inserted in the banana, tomato or fruit juices for the needs of the countries because of poverty, lack of technical capabilities to vakcinišu stanovnništvo," the list.

Larger investments are required in the use of genetic modification of primary breeding crops for subsistence poorest countries. To the need for coordinated approach to government and agencies in all developed and developing countries, assessed further in the text of the London daily.
Progress in this area must urgently to achieve because of the climate changes that are consequences of global otopljavanja, it can be concluded in the text of "Independent".

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