Ingo Potrykus, creator of Golden Rice, wants to live to see it prevent deaths from vitamin A deficiency (Image: Pallava Bagla/Sygma/Corbis)
Why did you develop Golden Rice?
I got involved because I’m concerned about food security. I realised it’s not just about calories, but also about the quality of food. I started working on it in the early 1990s with . We started on the problem of iron deficiency, but that work didn’t pan out, so we switched to tackling vitamin A deficiency.
By 1999 we had . It was a surprise it worked because…
