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Preventing hunger: Biotechnology is key

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  • Calestous Juma

    (Calestous Juma is the director of the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. He is author of The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011).)

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If African countries can't plant genetically modified crops to produce more and healthier food, vulnerable populations will be at risk, argues Calestous Juma.

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  • Calestous Juma, 2011. "Preventing hunger: Biotechnology is key," Nature, Nature, vol. 479(7374), pages 471-472, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:479:y:2011:i:7374:d:10.1038_479471a
    DOI: 10.1038/479471a
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    1. Joeva Sean Rock & Matthew A. Schnurr & Ann Kingiri & Dominic Glover & Glenn Davis Stone & Adrian Ely & Klara Fischer, 2023. "Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 54(1), pages 117-142, January.
    2. Hu, R. & Deng, H., 2018. "A Crisis of Consumers’ Trust in Scientists and Influence on Consumer Attitude," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 276047, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson & Mambulu, Faith Nankasa & Bezner Kerr, Rachel & Luginaah, Isaac & Lupafya, Esther, 2016. "Agroecology and sustainable food systems: Participatory research to improve food security among HIV-affected households in northern Malawi," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 89-99.
    4. Fischer, Klara, 2016. "Why new crop technology is not scale-neutral—A critique of the expectations for a crop-based African Green Revolution," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(6), pages 1185-1194.

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