A panel of experts at the British Crop Production Council Congress agreed that agricultural biotechnology will be part of the solution to increasing food production. According to Bayer CropScience’s Julian Little, “To say the only way of producing enough food is through agricultural science and technology is probably not true…but without it there is no chance.”

Read more about the British Crop Production Council Congress here

Jim McCarthy, an Irish farmer and a participant in the Truth About Trade & Technology’s Global Farmer-to-Farmer Roundtable at the 2009 World Food Prize Symposium, penned an op-ed for Forbes.com about the importance of access to biotechnology for farmers worldwide.

Mr. McCarthy farms in Ireland and Argentina and grows wheat, corn and soybeans. He finds that the restrictive anti-biotech laws in Ireland contradict our need to grow more food on less land in order to meet the demands of a growing population.

According to Mr. McCarthy, “Europe must do its part to produce more and use its influence, especially in Africa, to encourage biotechnology. The policy of refusing to take GM crops seriously sets us up for an awful tragedy.”

Read more of Jim McCarthy’s piece here and please comment with your thoughts.