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Technology for life: how biotech will save billions from starvation.
"To deny desperate, hungry people the means to control their futures by presuming to know what is best for them is not only paternalistic but morally wrong.... We want to have the opportunity to save the lives of millions of people and change the course of history in many nations.... The harsh reality is that, without the help of agricultural biotechnology, many will not live."
--Hassan Adamu, Nigerian minister of agricultural and rural development, September 11, 2000.
Today, most people around the world have access to a greater variety of nutritious and affordable foods than ever before, thanks mainly to developments in agricultural science and ...
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