It calls for genetic improvement of crops through conventional plant breeding and through direct genetic modification of crops.

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She says a four-year scientific study initiated by the World Bank says there is little role for genetic modification in feeding the poor on a large scale.

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"You have traditional knowledge which has existed for hundreds of years, which is absolutely being starved of any kind of policy support or funding because governments seem so obsessed with genetic modification,"

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