Consider the impact of technology on world hunger today.
Possible Points
- While the advent of technology such as genetically engineered crops seems to be the most promising solution to world hunger.
- Proponents of the view that technology is the most viable solution to world hunger overlook the fact that successes in the production of genetically modified crops are few and far between, limiting its ability to impact world hunger.
- One also needs to examine the inevitable environmental impact on the food crisis in today’s world, as science can do very little to help solve global hunger, in view of the erratic patterns of climate in today’s world.
- The use of technology to eradicate world hunger is a simplistic and symptomatic one that targets the effects of world hunger. Its use thus has to be combined with other strategies to ensure more effective impacts to resolve world hunger
- Corruption of officials and political leaders undermine the already small impact technology is making on world hunger.
- The profit-driven motives of research institutions often cause such technology to be priced at unattainable levels, out of reach of the poor, causing them to function more like businesses rather than research institutions.
