Biotechnology and Food Security in the 21st Century

Author:

Serageldin Ismail1

Affiliation:

1. Chairman, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, and Vice President for Special Programs, World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA.

Abstract

Biotechnology can contribute to future food security if it benefits sustainable small-farm agriculture in developing countries. Presently, agrobiotechnology research cites ethical, safety, and intellectual property rights issues. Protection of intellectual property rights encourages private sector investment in agrobiotechnology, but in developing countries the needs of smallholder farmers and environmental conservation are unlikely to attract private funds. Public investment will be needed, and new and imaginative public-private collaboration can make the gene revolution beneficial to developing countries. This is crucial for the well-being of today's hungry people and future generations.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference25 articles.

1. United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 1998 (Oxford Univ. Press New York 1998) p. 19.

2. G. Conway The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the 21st Century (Cornell Univ. Press Ithaca NY 1998) pp. 44–65.

3. See for example G. Borgstrom The Food and People Dilemma (Duxbury North Scituate MA 1973); L. R. Brown By Bread Alone (Praeger New York 1974); E. P. Eckholm Losing Ground (Norton New York 1976).

4. G. Conway in (2) pp. 4–5 and 44; P. Pinstrup-Andersen R. Pandya-Lorch M. W. Rosegrant in (7) pp. 7–17.

5. P. Pinstrup-Andersen R. Pandya-Lorch M. W. Rosegrant in (7) pp. 9–10 and 14; G. Conway in (2) pp. 15–30.

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