Workers show how millet grows with weeds at a plantation of Italian farmer Giuseppe Oglio in Belcreda Gambolo, 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Milan in northern Italy November 6, 2009. Oglio, a third generation farmer eschews modern farming techniques -- chemicals, fertilizers, heavy machinery -- in favor of a purely natural approach. It is not just ecological, he says, but profitable, and he believes his system can be replicated in starving regions of the globe. Nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 km) away, in laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, hundreds of scientists at the world's biggest seed company, Monsanto, also want to feed the world, only their tools of choice are laser beams and petri dishes. Picture taken November 6, 2009. To match Special Report FOOD. Reuters Pictures 2 weeks ago

Workers show how millet grows with weeds at a plantation of Italian farmer Giuseppe Oglio in Belcreda Gambolo, 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Milan in northern Italy November 6, 2009. Oglio, a third generation farmer eschews modern farming techniques -- chemicals, fertilizers, heavy machinery -- in favor of a purely natural approach. It is not just ecological, he says, but profitable, and he believes his system can be replicated in starving regions of the globe. Nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 km) away, in laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, hundreds of scientists at the world's biggest seed company, Monsanto, also want to feed the world, only their tools of choice are laser beams and petri dishes. Picture taken November 6, 2009. To match Special Report FOOD.

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