We need to use all the available land fit for cultivation;provide adequate water resources.Do not build buildings in agricultual lands.
Too much shift by Agriculturists to other professions must be checked by offering good remuneration for produce and urbanisisation be reduced to help peolpe take to or continue Agriculture.
Distribution of produce has to be stream lined with out allowing for corporations’s speculative trading.
Genetically modified foods/seeds have to be tested thoroughly before being released to the market.Seeds marketed by Monsanto in India have not increased yieds, but in fact made the land barren.
Till these steps are taken, along with a detailed study of GMF(genetically modified foods) on health, Biotech has a limited role to play.
Long and short of it,use available resources to the optimum right now.
Story:
The debate over genetically modified crops and food has been contaminated by political and aesthetic prejudices: hostility to U.S. corporations, fear of big science and romanticism about local, organic production.
Refusing genetic modification makes a difficult problem more daunting.
Food supply is too important to be the plaything of these prejudices. If there is not enough food we know who will go hungry.
Genetic modification is analogous to nuclear power: nobody loves it, but climate change has made its adoption imperative. As Africa’s climate deteriorates, it will need to accelerate crop adaptation. As population grows it will need to raise yields. Genetic modification offers both faster crop adaptation and a biological, rather than chemical, approach to yield increases
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/can-biotech-food-cure-world-hunger/?hp#bozoanchor
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