The editors of The New York Times write,
With food prices remaining high in developing countries, the United Nations estimates that the number of hungry people around the world could increase by 100 million in 2009 and pass the one billion mark. A summit of world leaders in Rome scheduled for November will set an agenda for ways to reduce hunger and increase investment in agriculture development in poor countries.
What will drive the next Green Revolution? Is genetically modified food an answer to world hunger? Are there other factors that will make a difference in food production?
Paul Collier, economist, Oxford University
Vandana Shiva, activist and author
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, professor of nutrition and public policy, Cornell
Raj Patel, Institute for Food and Development Policy
Jonathan Foley, University of Minnesota
Michael J. Roberts, economist, North Carolina State University
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