A farmer plows a field in Kenya.

Traditional agricultural practices continue to produce only low yields and poor people. These practices will not be sufficient to feed the additional millions of people who will live on the continent fifty years from now. So the question becomes, why aren’t these types of biotechnology applications more readily available to African farmers? The priority of Africa must be to feed its people and to sustain agricultural production and the environment.

The people of Africa cannot wait for others to debate the merits of biotechnology. America and other developed nations must act now to allocate technologies that can prevent suffering and starvation.