 In many countries all over the world the issues of food and the quality and quantity of food is a problem. So many people go hungry without food. So it's important that science provides the food because everywhere food is needed. It is an item that everyone is concerned about. We have an opportunity to use strategic research and knowledge management to improve the quality of the food that is available for humanity, to address the challenges of increased population but also the quality of the food that we take in. My name is Paul Nampala. I'm an agricultural scientist and I do a lot of work especially linked to the crop sciences and using tools such as biotechnology to increase production. The nutritional beat of it is not okay. In my lab we have tried to address these issues and we have tried to improve legumes and develop new varieties of legumes that address issues of quality and quantity of food and these have been very well received because they have desirable traits that people would like to use. And the advances are moving on to try and incorporate other desirable traits such as vitamin A. So instead of us taking in capsules for vitamin A, we just eat the foods that we have and we sort out the problems that we have. I think the opportunity is that the biotechnology tools can help us do exactly that because we can biofortify virtually everything. We can put iron in shoes. I believe that agriculture as a farm has a significant contribution to dealing with the issues that are all around us. So our work has focused on trying to deal with these constraints. For example the effids, the bugs that simply come and kill the crop. So you try to deal with the constraints and in this case we are dealing with issues of trying to ensure that production is viable. It's not necessarily being very focused so the changes shouldn't be bad. But any technology has its own problems and of course we cannot afford not to embrace these technologies because sustainability issues are then a big problem. So if in Africa we do not embrace these issues and train scientists and build our scientific base, then our economy's worries lag behind. Science is about sharing what we know and the science that is not shared is not good science.