Will genetically modified foods save a starving world?

Click your fingers as fast as you can — A child is being born with every click. Sound unbelievable? Well it's near to the truth, some forty thousand babies born every day around the globe. We live in a world where the population of our species is immense and escalating, estimated to reach 8 billion by 2015 –that's 8000 million. The resources we expend on a daily basis are, therefore, understandably colossal.

For most in the develop...