How to feed the world by 2050? Recent breakthrough boosts plant growth by 40 percent. Recent advances to address hunger through agricultural advancement have been shown to boost crop growth by 40 percent by creating a shortcut for a glitch that plagues most food crops. Source 4y.
So basically they want to increase the size of foods and turn them into Frankenfoods that might have big side effect for the sake of satisfying hunger and maybe someone's pocket.
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Land deals meant to improve food security may have hurt. Large-scale land acquisitions by foreign investors, intended to improve global food security, had little to no benefit, increasing crop production in some areas while simultaneously threatening local food security in others, according to researchers who studied their effects. Source 5k.