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Britain must launch GM food revolution, says chief scientist
John Vidal and Felicity Lawrence
London
Guardian
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Britain must embrace genetically modified crops
and cutting-edge developments such as nanotechnology to avoid
catastrophic food shortages and future climate change, the government's
chief scientist will warn today.
In the clearest public signal yet that the government wants
a hi-tech farming revolution, Professor John Beddington will
say UK scientists need to urgently d evelop "a new and
greener revolution" to increase food production in a world
changed by global warming and expected to have an extra 3 billion
people to feed by 2040.
"Techniques and technologies from many disciplines, ranging
from biotechnology and engineering to newer fields such as nanotechnology,
will be needed," writes Beddington in a paper, seen by
the Guardian, to accompany his speech to the Oxford farming
conference.
He warns that time lags for the use of new technology on farms
means action is vital now and argues that it is no longer possible
to rely on improving yields from crops in traditional ways.
"Over the last 50 years improving yields has accounted
for 75% of increase in output. However, yield growth rates are
now slowing," he says.
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