... could be a potential tool to improve food security but the actual companies being managed to develop researches on biotechnology are not considering food security as one of the main goals, on the contrary, they are adapting biotechnology to their own interests and just seeking economic profit. Biotechnology is focused, then, on developing disease and virus resistant, long shelf life and pesticides properties in their products: even if they can be useful in developing countries, they are not their main concern. The necessities of the poor are not being taken into account. Furthermore, biotechnology can be used, as the Green Revolution was, as a weapon to widen the gap between the poor and the rich, between developed and developing countries: It offers many advantages to the companies that research biotechnology: to impose dependency on it thanks to the issue of IPR's and the concession of patents to be able to ...

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