Thursday, January 13, 2011

what are potential riscks of food biotechnology to the envirnment and to the issue of world hunger?

  • At least 800 million people suffer from malnutrition. 1
  • Sub-Saharan Africa has an infant mortality rate of 9.2 per cent and three million children in the region have gone blind due to a deficiency of Vitamin A. 2
  • An estimated 1.3 billion people live on less than $1 per day, insufficient income to purchase an adequate diet. 3

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