Ok, let's do this.
Food waste in western countries:
http://endhunger.org/food-waste/
http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/food_waste_the_facts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_waste
According to research we are producing ebough food world wide to feed the planet already.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x0262e/x0262e05.htm
Want to know how the US or the EU is destroying the african markets. Everything I am writing is very well known, but of course people don't like to talk about it.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6256274
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=aqcEofUwPqtU&pid=newsarchive
Article from 2008
http://fpif.org/destroying_african_agriculture/
Or 2002
http://www.iatp.org/files/Dumping_on_the_Poor_The_Common_Agricultural_Po.htm
And do you know the funny thing, GMO will not change anything, because to have a reliable income people need working markets to sell their products. But the US, the EU and China are using Africa as a dumping ground for their products.
http://www.consultancyafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1111:a-continent-vs-a-country-china-putting-strain-on-africas-clothing-and-textile-industries-&catid=82:african-industry-a-business&Itemid=266
Africa neither does need GMOs nor so called investements in infrastructure. What Africa would need is not getting fucked by the western countries or China, but because our system is based on stealing from the poor so we can be rich, there is not that much pressure to change anything.
And it is the same thing with GMOs and Glyphosate. There are a lot of problems, risks and dangers but it is all getting ignored, because technology will solve everything. It is the nuclear age all over again.
What would save the planet would be fair prizes for the food or the products you buy. But of course, if you had to pay the amount it is actually worth, you could not afford a new I-phone every year or similar things. In reality GMO is a cute little bedtime story for all the people who don't want to know the reality, that our wealth is produced by cheating on billions of people. Speculating with food, resources and stealing. Of course nobody calls it stealing, but if you can rent the fishing rights of a whole country for a few million dollars, just because you talk to the right person, it is pretty much that.
Yes, a lot of people a so enraged when John Oliver talks about it, but you will buy the new I-phone anyway even knowing what is all behind it, how Foxconn treats their workers in China. It is so much easier to hope that some scientists in a GMO lab will solve world hunger for you. Of course they will not, there is no profit in ending world hunger.
All the tech solutions also Bill Gates is rooting for are just a cute little distractions. Reality is if you really want, that everybody on the planet can have a happy life, it is not technology that will save us, but we would all have to give away stuff we are so used to. But as the 1% in the US would not give anything to the 99%, the western countries of course will not give anything away as well. And as long people are able to ignore reality and hope somebody else, like a scientist will solve world hunger for them, nothing will ever change. And people are so ready to believe anything just to calm down that little nagging thought in their head about the consequences, if it was not safe. Studies showed it is safe, so off to McDonalds they are selling 3 Burgers for 4 Dollars.