GM crops no panacea to food insecurity - expert

Speaking at a Botswana Council of Churches (BCC) food security workshop in Gaborone yesterday, Molefe asserted that there is too much emphasis on the yields of GM crops than on the quality of food from the crops. She said there is lack of capacity and accredited technology for testing and monitoring GM products.

"So GM foods are not a solution to food security," she said. She explained that the concept of GM foods is the production of more food to stave off hunger and the issue of quality would come later.