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Agricultural Biotechnology for Developing Countries - Results of an Electronic Forum

Report of the first six e-mail conferences of the FAO Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture

Year of publication 2001

Author john ruane, maria zimmermann ;Climate, Energy and Tenure Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title FAO Research and Technology Paper

Series number 1020-0541

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The global population size is increasing by roughly 80 million annually and almost all population growth is in developing countries. Since the amount of agricultural land available is limited, the increases in food production needed to feed the worlds growing population must come from increasing the amount of food produced per hectare. Biotechnology includes a range of scientific tools that can be applied to different aspects of agriculture, food production and nutrition and may play a role in t his challenge.

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