Sanchez, Pedro A., and M. S. Swaminathan. "Cutting World Hunger in Half." Sciencemag.org. Science Magazine, 21 Jan. 2005. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.sciencemag.org/content/307/5708/357.full>.
This source is objective. This article would interest anyone curious about world hunger and a possible solution. This article is based on statistics about The Millennium Project, a United Nations task to help reduce the number of hungry people in the world. The "hot spots of world hunger" are mostly around Africa and India. The article identifies three ways to cut hunger in half by means of global political action, national policy reforms, and community action in hunger hot spots. I learned many statistics that have possibly grown in the past 6 years since it was written. I agreed with the authors because they said that reducing world hunger will depend on the governments of these nations. If those governments have little corruption and are cooperative with the people, then progress will be achieved. This will be useful in my project because of the information and the suggestions that the article has provided.
Borlaug, Norman E. "Ending World Hunger. The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry." Plant Physiology. American Society of Plant Physiologists, Oct. 2000. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/124/2/487.full>.
Biotechnology can help end world hunger. By designing plants differently, they can develop plants faster and therefore have more crops to offer. The author claims that technology today has the ability to feed 10 billion people but that many would need to adopt the methods in order for it to have an impact. Breakthroughs involving the genetic engineering of plants could lead to solving the problem.
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