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Ensuring food security — where people have access to an affordable, nutritionally adequate diet — is vital to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by half the proportion of people suffering from hunger.
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Opinions and Analysis
GM crops deserve more reasoned debate
Debates around the potential benefits of GM crops for developing countries must be reasoned and evidence-based, says Albert Weale.
Answers to the food crisis
Three essays, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute, offer perspectives on the global food crisis.
Voluntary co-operation can work on global problems
15 September 2008
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Source: IISD/MEA Bulletin
Policy Briefs
People, deserts and drylands in the developing world
Growing dryland populations are depleting their natural resources, while increasingly-settled agriculture ignores the traditional knowledge needed to tackle future uncertainties, says David Thomas.
1 October 2006
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News and Features
Biotechnology 'no cure-all' for food insecurity
Biotechnology will not offer the full solution to Africa's food problems, warn scientists at the All Africa Congress on Biotechnology.
26 September 2008
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World's crops to be screened for climate traits
Researchers in developing countries will screen thousands of crops for traits to help them adapt to climate change.
African hunger for bushmeat 'unsustainable'
17 September 2008
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