“European opposition to safe GM technology contributes to African hunger in the short run. In the long run, it virtually dooms those countries’ efforts to adapt their agriculture to changing climate conditions.” So write Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana and Norman Borlaug, Nobel laureate and father of the green revolution, in an op-ed in the Washington Times. A year after reports of a global food crisis began to appear in the media, the article makes the compelling case for greater investment in agricultural biotechnology, “Attempting to double food production by increasing the acreage under cultivation would cause widespread deforestation and put significant stress on local ecologies. Farmers will have to get much higher yields from land already in production, requiring major investments in infrastructure and agricultural technology.”