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August 24, 2011

Why GMOs Won’t Feed the World (Despite What You Read in the New York Times)

by Anna Lappé, Civil Eats, USA - In order to address the roots of hunger today and build a food system that will feed the future, we must invest in “sustainable intensification”—not expensive GMO technology that threatens biodiversity and locks us into dependence on fossil fuels, fossil water, and agrochemicals.

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