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  • Also last time i checked, golden rice had lower yields than other varieties so it still needs years of breeding to be competitive. And needless to say, the real solution to these nutrition problems is economic development, which won’t happen with propietary crops.

    Classic tech bro solutions without understanding the real problem.

    Yet, malnutrition is prevalent, particularly among children and women. This is not simply because of the absence of an important nutrient or vitamin. It is caused by the “lack of access to sufficient, nutritious and safe food” due to poverty, and changing food production and consumption patterns (p. 27, UN FAO, 2017).

    quoted from the grain.org article you postes.


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    There has to be a balance, we need to understand that as long as we export harvests out of the field we need to import nutrients into the field. We can’t expect plants to naturally replenish the nutrients that we unnaturally extract.

    Also we need to understand that when we introduce heavy machinery into a field, we need heavy machinery to break compaction. Plants and soil organisms simply cannot naturally break the compaction caused by our unnaturally heavy machinery that is heavily concentrated in the small contact area of a tire.

    Some of these dogmatic beliefs lead to “regenerative” farmers being more extractivists than the industrial farmers they demonize.