How a Genetic Breakthrough Could Address Global Hunger
Big Brains
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Climate Change and Hese Plants
People in developing countries go hungry every day due to lack of food. Food scarcity can also occur due to increasingly extreme conditions driven by climate change. The weather is now so variable, growing enough food has become all but impossible. Hese plants may solve that problem too. There are several benefits of these plants way beyond the crops. Remember, they have longer roots. They survive drought much better. So they they can't grow under more extreme conditions because the roots go deeper. Also, they solidify soil, so they will prevent, in principle, atof beter.
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