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Population Problems:

IN 2011, the worlds population reached seven billion people, by 2050 it will surpass nine billion people. This means that farmers will need to produce 70% more food to feed all those people.

There is an estimated 786 million hungry people in the world today. Africa represents less than one quarter of the hunger. According to business week magazine 5000 children die each day of malnutrition. one third of India's 900 million people are poverty stricken.

Solutions:

Going with the green revolution which is genetic engineering. The creation of genetically modified plants may help bring about increased plant production, better harvests and better quality crops. With the need for increased harvests to feed a rapidly growing world population, genetic modification may truly be looked upon as a very useful field to explore for solutions to such problems.

The World Health Organization is working with genetically modified food.