The world is dry and hungry but GM crops could change all that Biotech is eyeing wheat in Latin America and China as Bioceres warns about future food shortages 26 April 2021 - 13:28 Jonathan Gilbert and Scott Squires Picture: SUPPLIED Buenos Aires — A world without enough food is just around the corner and can only be averted if humans forget their qualms about eating genetically modified (GM) crops, also known as biotech foods. That’s according to Federico Trucco, CEO of Bioceres Crop Solutions, a company that’s literally trying to put bread on the table with the sometimes controversial technology. Bioceres is trying to succeed where no other company has before by selling genetically modified wheat. While the vast majority of the world’s soybean and corn crops are already GM organisms (GMOs), these are fed to livestock. Biotech wheat, on the other hand, would be directly eaten by humans in bread and pasta, something consumers and regulators have roundly rejected in the past.