Bernhards Ogutu, a Kenyan pediatrician who went on to found a malaria diagnosis center, says expensive microscopy kits, complex technical training and electrical grid requirements limit how much the nonprofit can do to diagnose malaria in Africa.
Add to this an inevitable end to stretching productivity per acre with further technical advances as we reach some ultimate biological limit, and we would be irresponsible to assume that agricultural science will solve all future problems of food supply.