Sixty countries backed by the World Bank and most UN bodies yesterday called for radical changes in world farming to avert increasing regional food shortages, escalating prices and growing environmental problems. But in a move that has led to the US, UK, Australia and Canada not yet endorsing the report, the authors said GM technology was not a quick fix to feed the world's poor and argued that growing biofuel crops for automobiles threatened to increase worldwide malnutrition.
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The Big Question: Is changing our diet the key to resolving the global food crisis? - The Independent 16th April 2008
Change in farming can feed world - report - The Guardian 16th April 2008
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