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Food

Agricultural research key to food security

http://twas.ictp.it/news/press-releases/agricultural-research-key-to-food-security/

"Boosting agricultural research in the developing world is the key to ensuring food security for the world's poorest, says Adel El-Beltagy (TWAS Fellow 2005), Chair of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), writing in the latest issue of the TWAS Newsletter."

Our population will have increased to 9 billion people predominantly among the poor in the least developed parts of our world south of the equator. BiotecConnect believes it can help translate bio/nanotech discoveries into agricultural applications globally to increase food production globally.