Food Crises In Africa

Food crises in Africa in the second half of the 20th century were caused by a combination of multiple factors; however, all were preceded by failed harvests due weather extremes causing shortage of food. Millions of people were affected by malnutrition and thousands died from starvation despite the relief efforts by the international community. `Genetically modified foods or GM foods, also genetically engineered foods, are foods produced from organisms that have had changes introduced into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering – why are all these underlined and in a different colour?. Genetic engineering techniques allow for the introduction of new traits as well as greater control over traits than previous methods such as selective

Those claims are simply not true. Every major international science body in the world has reviewed multiple independent studies—in some cases numbering in the hundreds—in coming to the consensus conclusion that GMO crops are as safe or safer than conventional or organic foods, but the magnitude of the research has never been evaluated or documented. Still the claim that GMOs are ‘understudied’—the meme represented in the quotes highlighted at the beginning of this article—has become a staple of anti-GMO critics, especially activist journalists. In response to what they believed was an information gap, a team of Italian scientists catalogued and analysed 1783 studies about the safety and environmental impacts of GMO foods—a staggering number. The whole point of these critics is to keep African countries from using GMO food, resulting in Africa being dependent on food aid which should not be the case because we are the continent with the most minerals (King. 2003). L. Ruvoko why must it always be UN food aid can`t other African countries help out with starving Africans. Do you really think this UN food aid is for free and does it not indirectly come from third world countries that the UN buys it from? If GMO foods are so unsafe them why are developing countries like the USA

1, 2012), http://www.ccst.us/news/2012/1101aaas.php. Crop improvement by the modern molecular techniques of biotechnology is safe. . . . Consuming foods containing ingredients derived from GM crops is no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from crop plants modified by conventional plant improvement techniques.”)

Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health, National Research Council, Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects 180 (2004),http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309092094 (“[N]o adverse health effects attributed to genetic engineering have been documented in the human population.”)

Committee on Environmental Impacts Associated with Commercialization of Transgenic Plants, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Research Council, Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants: The Scope and Adequacy of Regulation 49 (2002), http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309082633 (“The transgenic process presents no new categories of risk compared to conventional methods of crop improvement, but specific traits introduced by both approaches can pose unique