Advantages of GMOs

Population 

GMOs may also have benefits for the growing population. As time goes on and the global population continues to grow, so will the need for food, as it is a human necessity. One projection predicts the world population will grow from 7.7 billion people to 9.7 billion people by 2050 (Herman, Fedorova & Store, 2019). This increase in population will need larger amounts of food production. This food production would require more land area to produce the agriculture, but what if this amount of land needed isn’t readily available and accessible? As the population grows, the amount of land area available to grow crops will decrease.

 As it becomes harder to find adequate amounts of land needed to produce enough crops for the growing population, genetically modifying organisms can help. These modern biotechnology techniques include transgene insertion and gene editing, which have, and will continue to, increase the agricultural productivity. Utilizing these tools can aid in alleviating the issue of a land shortage, as the population increases (Herman, Fedorova & Store, 2019).