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...wonder the biotech industry sees golden rice as a powerful ally in its struggle to win public acceptance. No wonder its critics see it as a cynical ploy. And no wonder so many of those concerned about the twin evils of poverty and hunger look at golden rice and see reflected in it their own passionate conviction that genetically engineered crops can be made to serve the greater public good--that in fact such crops have a critical role to play in feeding a world that is about to add to its present population of 6 billion. As former President...
Call it the summit shuttle: President Clinton, who arrived a day late to the G-8 summit in Okinawa, Japan, left a few hours early to make it back to the Israeli-Palestinian summit in time for dinner. Disease, hunger and education in the Third World were formally on the agenda in Japan, but Clinton and other officials were peppered with questions about Camp David. The President generally kept mum, although he did reveal that Barak and Arafat "have not wasted the time" that he was gone. Other administration officials were introduced at press briefings as being "ready to answer...
...statistics on population growth and hunger are disturbing. Last year the world's population reached 6 billion. And by 2050, the U.N. estimates, it will probably near 9 billion. Almost all that growth will occur in developing countries. At the same time, the world's available cultivable land per person is declining. Arable land has declined steadily since 1960 and will decrease by half over the next 50 years, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA...
...that promise, biotech is far from being the whole answer. In developing countries, lost crops are only one cause of hunger. Poverty plays the largest role. Today more than 1 billion people around the globe live on less than $1 a day. Making genetically modified crops available will not reduce hunger if farmers cannot afford to grow them or if the local population cannot afford to buy the food those farmers produce...
...Coelho] and I talked. He had called me while I was at an event, and then I got back to the hotel and I got the message and we talked for some time, and I called Tipper who was campaigning in Florida and we talked. [Brother-in-law] Frank Hunger was traveling with me and I talked to him before he turned in for the night and then I called Bill. I woke...