What you seem to have here is an example of non-GMO, conventional farming advances in the 50s that saved millions.
Isn't there a more recent example, perhaps more relevant to the current technologies?
And strange things that have been seen would be for example the virus that has jumped from GM Tobacco to insects, including honeybees, in the US. That's well over a billion years of evolution.
As I said we need to find a way forward that does not send all the profits to multinational operations, curing world hunger that way is a fools errand that will only end in even more death.
GMOs, for example, lead to unknowns. It may not doom us all. There is at least hope. Patents on food, regulation, corporate oligopoly, on the other hand, that is certain doom.
The worst thing about GMOs is not the GMO - but the fact that America is the capital of GMO foods. America is extremely pro-massive multinational corporations, and that is the kind of GMO their government pushes.
[America, where big corporations basically own the government, does a tardy job of feeding their OWN citizens:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/26/american-diet-report-card-unhealty. What kind of job do you think they will do at feeding the rest of the world?]
Some Greenpeace activists destroyed some crops. Therefore, I sicken you? Hmm, perhaps I'll have to run that statement through the logic gates again. Okay. Nope. Still not getting it.
In any case, there was an incident in 2013 where 400 Filipino farmers destroyed a field of Golden Rice. Why would they do that? Are they (farmers) wicked?