Introduction Food security exists when all people around the world have physical and economic access sufficient, safe, and nutritious food at their disposal. However, food security does not exist for a large population of the world. In India, it estimated that around 194 million people are facing starvation because of lack of access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food. India is described as a home of the highest number of hungry people in the world surpassing China according to the United Nations annual hunger report (Qaim & Kouser, 2013). Many more people around the world suffer from specific nutritional deficiencies that are often related to lack of intake of sufficient macronutrients. Eradication of hunger food insecurity is a central role of the United Nations Millennial Development Goals (Qaim & Kouser, 2013). However, how to achieve the goal of eradicating hunger and food insecurity is debatable. There is a general agreement that Genetically Modified (GMOs) Crops are vital in the fight against hunger and food insecurity. Some people see the development and the use of GMO crops as the ideal approach to eradicating hunger and food insecurity while others consider this technology as having more risks to food security (Qaim & Kouser, 2013). Solid evidence supports the general idea that genetically modified crops have greater nutritional values that can help solve the malnutrition problem with regards to India as a result of food insecurity. Three general arguments support the pathway of using GM crops as the ultimate solution to food security. First, genetically modified crops contribute to food production increase which improves the availability of sufficient food both at global and local level. The second argument is that GM crops could affect the food quality and safety and most importantly, GM crops have the impact of influencing the farmer’s economic and social situation which in this case could improve their access to food. In this sense, GM crops have critical to food security and food sovereignty (Scott et al., 2016). Reflection I think a classmate in this course with no prior knowledge of the topic would be more interested in reading the entire paper because the introduction attracts the attention of the reader. In the introduction, I have employed the use of statistics and reasons why GM crops could contribute to food security and food sovereignty. A classmate would be interested in understanding these statics as well as reading the explanation on how GM crops could contribute to food increase. The reader may also be attracted to reading the opinion of those who tend to reject the idea that GM crops may not help solve the food insecurity problem in India. GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS AND FOOD SECURITY 2 References Scott, P., Thomson, J., Grzywacz, D., Savary, S., Strange, R., Ristaino, J. B., & Korsten, L. (2016). Genetic modification for disease resistance: a position paper. Food Security, 8(4), 865-870. Qaim, M., & Kouser, S. (2013). Genetically modified crops and food security. PloS one, 8(6), e64879.
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