All You Can Eat
Technology: World leaders will meet this week in Rome to discuss how they'll deal with what they believe is a global food crisis. The answer is not so much in the fields or conference rooms as it is in the lab.
Of course the United Nations will make its usual pretense of doing something about food scarcity. There will be the typical special task forces, rhetorical flourishes, demands for international community service and First World sacrifice, guilt mongering and, of course, demonizing of America
All of which will feed exactly zero hungry bellies.
The way to feed the escalating world population is to grow more food and ensure it's delivered in a timely manner. While the latter is something that nations working together can do, the best way to achieve the former is to rely on science, the accumulation of human knowledge through the millennia. Technology has given us gifts that humanity cannot afford to turn down:
• By genetically modifying food crops, man can reap larger harvests per acre than through conventional farming. For instance, average corn production was 148 bushels per acre in 2005, but through technological advances, the average yield is expected to be 162 bushels per acre by 2010 and 173 by 2015.
Those might not look like big gains, but, in the U.S. alone, increasing output by just two bushels per acre will yield an additional 180 million or so bushels of corn.
• Increased production will lower prices.
• Genetically altering plants can make them resistant to the droughts, pest infestations and disease that destroy food production.
• Crops can be bioengineered to mature faster, shortening growing seasons and increasing the frequencies of harvests.
• Genetic modifications extend the shelf life of crops.
• Biotechnology is capable of making food more nutritious, as scientists are able to fortify crops with proteins, vitamins, minerals and disease-busting antioxidants.
More difficult than the science, though, will be the negotiating of political thickets that are filled with an irrational resistance to biotech foods and governments that will either steal the aid or block its delivery. The technology to feed a hungry world is here. We just have to apply it.
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