Golden Rice Better Than Expected and Open Source
This story from Center for Development Research (ZEF) an international and interdisciplinary research institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn indicates that the beta carotene rich "Golden" rice grain is even more effective at supplementing nutrient deficient diets than originally suspected. This is good news, even better news is that the grain is able to be harvested and replanted without farmers being captured by commercial interests who will want a royalty.

Now the only problems they need to consider are 1) that there are very strong cultural drivers in many Asian communities in favour of white rice and a major campaign will be needed over many years to change that, assuming such change is desirable and 2) that if the quality of the food improves, there will potentially be an emergent process that sacrifices some of the land to other purposes because the minimal acceptable level of nutrition can be obtained form fewer hectares of production and more profitable uses can be applied to the "surplus". It will be interesting to see how this plays out.