Oct 23, 2003
Bill Gates donation of U.S. $25 million for biofortification - breeding crops with higher levels of micronutrients - is an effort to provide a life-saving shot to the dying family of public-sector international agricultural research institutes. But Gates, argues Devinder Sharma, a New Delhi-based food and trade policy analyst, has to understand that biotechnology, the way it is being promoted by corporate interests, has the potential to further the great divide between haves and have-nots. Biotechnology will, in reality, push more people in the hunger trap.
































