MODERN AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: WORLD EXPERIENCE IN ENSURING FOOD SECURITY

Abstract

Based on the data presented in the study ("Transgenic Plants and Food Security in the Context of Human Development") of the Bishop's Academy of Sciences, it can be assumed that biotechnology can create the basis for solving a number of existing global problems. For example, such as providing the population with food (more than 1 billion out of 6.8 billion of the world's population are currently undernourished), intensive population growth (by 2050, the world's population will grow by another 2-2.5 billion people and will reach 9 billion), climate change and, as a result, a decrease in water reserves (including for agriculture), a massive loss of the fertile soil layer (due to the intensive use of pesticides). These and other problematic issues require the urgent development of new agricultural systems and technologies. Agricultural biotechnology is one of the options for solving these problems