The looming food crisis in Asia: the problem with biotech crops
A young girl with red flowers in her hair looks at the photographer in Kothapally village. Over the last 15 years biotechnology has been heralded as a simple way to increase crop yields and solve the global food problem. There are more than one billion hectares of biotech crops currently in the world, that is a total area larger than whole of China. In this part Clark travels to India to ask two key questions around the use of biotechnology: are their risks being taken in the adoption of these genetically modified crops, which could bring about greater problems in the future and is the boom in productivity created by using biotechnology over? 23/06/2011, Rangareddy, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The looming food crisis in Asia: the problem with biotech crops
A young girl with red flowers in her hair looks at the photographer in Kothapally village. Over the last 15 years biotechnology has been heralded as a simple way to increase crop yields and solve the global food problem. There are more than one billion hectares of biotech crops currently in the world, that is a total area larger than whole of China. In this part Clark travels to India to ask two key questions around the use of biotechnology: are their risks being taken in the adoption of these genetically modified crops, which could bring about greater problems in the future and is the boom in productivity created by using biotechnology over? 23/06/2011, Rangareddy, Andhra Pradesh, India.