Britain should embrace cutting-edge technologies, such as genetic modification and nanotechnology, to avoid catastrophic food shortages and future climate change, the government's chief scientist said in a paper presented to the Oxford Farming Conference.
"In the clearest public signal yet that the government wants a hi-tech farming revolution, Professor John Beddington [wrote that] U.K. scientists need to urgently develop 'a new and greener revolution' to increase food production in a world changed by global warming and expected to have an extra 3 billion people to feed by 2040," according to an article in The Guardian newspaper.
Development and environmental activists are expected to challenge the conclusion that new technology is the answer to the global food crisis.
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