Hunger Management

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The paper examines how although transgenic crops have appeared in the past to have potential for controlling hunger, they do not seem to fulfill that potential in practice. The paper explains that the cost of transgenic crops due to the need to purchase seed for each growing season as well as the reduced crop yields might be too great for local farmers to bear in developing nations. This cost might be significant enough to increase dependency on foreign aid.

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"Current trends in managing hunger seem to focus on bringing transgenic, or genetically modified food into developing countries. This approach to managing hunger appears to have several issues that make introducing such food of questionable value. Using both the dependency approach and the modernization approach to evaluate this trend reveals these issues. Transgenic crops are those that have had modifications made to create "superior" crops. However, transgenic crops do not seem to be the answer to the issue of world hunger. According to Altieri and Rosset (1999) there is already enough food on the planet to provide every person currently living with 3500 calories or 4.3 pounds of food each day (pp. 1-2). With such a large quantity of available food, why is it that there is a perceived need to use transgenic crops to reduce hunger?"

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