date:Jul 17, 2012
n January Microsoft owner Gates told the BBC that GM techniques had a place alongside more conventional methods, particularly if they prevented many people dying of starvation.
He said:Some of the work we[The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]are doing to create new seeds involves GM techniques, but a lot of it does not. What we end up with is a set of products with which African countries can decide what they want to use.
But campaign group GM Freeze slammed the grant as a waste of money that