Author: Vern Hodgins

Our food supply is ever changing. From hunting and gathering to farming our food, increasing yields has always been a challenge. Every major agricultural innovation heralds a new era of improved survival, increased life expectancy and along with that, more people. Keeping up with more people requires more innovation, which in turn means more people. Improving agricultural yields to fill today’s 7.6 billion stomachs requires unprecedented ingenuity. How will we meet the challenges of the 11 billion people projected to inhabit our shrinking blue orb by the end of this century? From the science of genetically modified organisms (GMO)...