1.) What are the potential benefits of food biotechnology to the environment and to the issue of world hunger?

 Biotechnology Benefits

The development of genetically modified foods and other agricultural biotechnology products has generated significant public debate. The potential for creating foods enhanced for health benefits or increasing crop yields was tantalizing, but there was also widespread concern about the technology’s health and environmental risks.

The Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology spotlighted policy issues arising from these discussions and served as a credible, honest broker, bringing together people with differing viewpoints to examine the opportunities and challenges of agricultural biotechnology.

The benefits are :

• The production of safer foods by lowering the amount of allergy-causing proteins
• Crops that are tolerant to droughts and floods
• Crops that are tolerant to soils with high levels of with salt or metals
• Crops that are tolerant to heat and cold