As of 2022, there are 7.9 billion people living on Earth, and there’s plenty of food on the planet to feed everyone—but the UN’s hunger map estimated that in 2021, a tenth of the world population did not have enough to eat. Not everyone has access to enough food, let alone nutritious food, leaving hundreds of millions of people vitamin deficient or starving. 

New technologies in the agricultural sector have the potential to relieve these crises. Genetically modified foods, like Golden Rice, are being engineered to have a higher nutritional value and higher crop yield–which means that more food can be cultivated on less land. Biofortified crops could save millions of lives, especially those of infants and young children, who are disproportionately affected by vitamin deficiencies in developing countries. But, with a growing stigma against genetically modified foods, will we get the chance?

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