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Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries
American Journal of Agricultural Economics ( IF 4.2 ) Pub Date : 2003-12-01 , DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2003.00518.x Uma Lele 1
American Journal of Agricultural Economics ( IF 4.2 ) Pub Date : 2003-12-01 , DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2003.00518.x Uma Lele 1
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The developing world faces a triple challenge-poverty in the midst of plenty; environmental degradation caused by both plenty and poverty; and islands of security surrounded by conflict. All the three phenomena affect the food security and well being of nearly a billion people earning less than $1 a day. An overwhelming share of these people live in Africa and Asia, two continents that also bear a disproportionate share of the world's disease burden, particularly in terms of HIV-AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. Among the poor are some 125 million stunted and underweight children and over 10 million orphans. Many of the world's poorest derive livelihoods from agriculture-broadly defined to include forestry, fisheries, and livestockdrawing on a natural resource base of limited productive value. The economies of the countries in which they reside depend on agricultural primary and commodity exports food imports. Recent events underscore the growing vulnerability of the poor in developing countries, especially in light of their continuing heavy dependence on agriculture. Recent food shortages in Africa are being attributed to the rapid loss of agricultural labor, a direct result of a scourge of diseases. Export volumes have collapsed. Conflicts have decimated household seed supply for critical food crops in some countries; global climate change has adversely affected the low-lying countries among them. Under its best-case scenario, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts that 450 million people around the world will still be food-insecure in 2015. Key Messages of This Paper
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