Biotech crops that require less tilling can help to decrease soil erosion. We want the opportunity to save the lives of millions of people and change the course of history in many nations. North American agriculture is the envy of the world and has made outstanding progress in the past century because of judicious application of technology. Biotechnology represents a frontier advance in agricultural science, and has far-reaching potential in advancing global food production in an environmentally sustainable manner. While the world population continues to grow in the developing countries where food is already a problem, biotechnology represents one tool we can employ in concert with many other traditional approaches to increase food production in the face of diminishing land and water resources.
World hunger is a complex issue, one for which there is no one answer.
Yet while biotechnology is not be the only solution, it can be a valuable tool in the struggle to feed a hungry world.