Soil quality news: The "right" GM crops should be used

A report by the Royal Society will say that appropriate GM crops should be made use of in the future to assuage food shortages, it has been asserted.

Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, an anonymous source stated that the paper, entitled Reaping the Benefits: Towards a Sustainable Intensification of Global Agriculture, will move the debate on GM crops forward.

"The report will say the right GM crops should be used in the future to alleviate food shortages ... The government will have to take notice of this," the source said.

Due to be published this week, the document was commissioned in July 2008 following a report by the UN which predicted that global food production will need to double in order to sustain a global population of nine billion by 2050.

The source concluded by stating that GM crops need to be examined on a case-by-case basis as they are not the only solution to the problem.

Posted by Lauren Steadman