Another area where biotechnology offers promise for the developing world in particular is in the production of food products with extra nutritional or medicinal properties. We have the opportunity to provide the people with resistance to this disease through their normal diet. Golden Rice is being developed by a Swiss scientist, Ingo Potrykus, working for a Swiss foundation with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. It will be delivered free of charge. Rights to the intellectual property have been waived.
Golden Rice sets up an excellent model.
I hope it will be followed. There are other kinds of products. The Carter Center in Atlanta delivers protein-enriched corn to different places in Africa so that the women can wean their children directly onto this corn. This new kind of engineering technology offers a way both to nourish people and to build up resistance to diseases. I will mention one ingenious Dutch project.