Food Crisis 2008: Investing in Genetically Modified Food

Today's Financial News - Posted May 16, 2008

Baltimore — (TFN): The food crisis of 2008 is much different from any that we’ve seen in years past. It’s not about famine in one country anymore. It’s about poverty and malnutrition worldwide. Fifteen percent of the world’s population lives on just one dollar a day. With food costs rising on average by 20 percent, that’s about one billion people that must give up health care and education in order to avoid starvation.

To help us better understand this crisis and to find out what companies in the first world are doing about it, Krista Das has invited Christian DeHaemer, global analyst and editor of Material Profits.

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