Opportunities in the developing world may exist when science can dominate this new technology with enough certainty about its harmlessness. For the time being, other alternatives have more potential and less risks, like natural resources management and agroecology. For the moment genetic engineering is more a risk to food security than a potential means for increasing food production, even though TNC propaganda presents it as the solution. It is well known and scientifically accepted by now that food production increases, by themselves, contribute very little to household food security when not associated with land entitlement, adequate and sustainable production systems, access to credit, access to basic public services, and equitable income and wealth distribution, among other factors. If controlled solely by private interests, with no public control at national and international levels, biotechnology can significantly harm well-being through direct interference in all of the factors that produce food security, while not necessarily guaranteeing increased food production or food quality.
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