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Rostern Tembo
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6256/2016.05.001
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Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, 42101 KY, USA
ABSTRACT
The paper discusses the advantages of biotechnology, the challenges it
will face, the global food demands as world population grows and the need for
the balance between biotechnology and traditional technology to enhance food production.
Genetically modified crops have a number of advantages than conventional crops, so have caused a good
number of farmers across the world to embrace biotechnology. The projected rise
in the world population by 2050 to be at 9.7 billion and by 2100 at
approximately 11 billion has led to adoption of biotechnology in an attempt to
meet the global food requirements. The foreseeable challenges will be the
sustainability of genetically modified crops against insects’ resistance and
the safety of these genetically modified crops. We are at a stage in human
development, where we need a
balanced approach to solving this world challenge of hunger and malnourishment,
a safe sustainable approach using the best of the conventional crop technology
and the best of biotechnology to achieve sustainable intensification of crop
productivity on the 1.5 billion ha of cropland
globally.
KEYWORDS
Transgenic crops/foods, genetically modified plants, semiochemicals, pull and push strategy, Cry-proteins, genetically modified crops.
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