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Though population is expected to grow significantly, yield increase from food crops has been slowing down. Field of wheat under cloudy gray sky The population is expected to grow by 1% each year, but agricultural production needs to grow by 1.5% each year due to food waste. But, the growth rate needed for agricultural production may not be possible to sustain in the future because we have only so much space, energy, and resources. To increase yields in the past, Norman Borlau

You often hear about the importance of purchasing non-GMO foods, but why is that important? Close up illustration of DNA double helical structure GMO stands for a genetically modified organism. That means that through the help of genetic engineering, we can copy favorable traits that one organism carries in its genes and transfer it to a separate organism. The first example of a GMO product approved for sale was the Flavr Savr tomato in 1994, one engineered to have a longer s