"Economic Focus: Feeding the Hungry (In the fourth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus project, we look at hunger and malnutrition)," The Economist, 8 May, p. 74.

This prestigious effort at thinking about the future of the Gap regions says there are no one silver bullet to stop hunger, but only a judicious mix of many remedies, like better prenatal care, better nutrition for the youngest kids, tackle the problem of vitamin deficiencies, and improve agricultural technology, which means using more higher-yielding cropsóoften genetically improved.

Guess which one has the highest payoff at the fastest rate? Improving ag technology.

This is why I say pushing bio-engineered crops is a key Core goal in foreign aid directed at the Gap.

Kirkus Reviews may label me ìStrangeloveanî for saying so, but I can live with that.