Bickering will never feed the world

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My Financial Times column this week is about the global food crisis and the stand-off about how to solve it between the US government, Monsanto and environmental activists such as Greenpeace that are opposed to genetically-modified crops. I come down on the side of the former, with caveats. You can read it here and comment below.

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