The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture is funding research into a public debate around the issues of GM food crops, in an effort to allay recent civil protests to farmers having the right to plant GM rice and corn, reported SciDev. The Government is considering the use of GM crops toRead More …
“Sustainable intensification” – what is it?
26 January, 2011 by (comments)Well, according to UK chief scientific adviser John Beddington, it is the only way we’re going to significantly increase the amount of food produced on the same amount of farmland to meet the challenges of a booming world population. Beddington oversaw the Foresight think-tank’s Global Food and Farming Futures report,Read More …
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Revolution needed in food system that fails half the planet
25 January, 2011 by (comments)A major new UK government report has called for a radical overhaul of the world food system – because it is currently failing half of the people on the planet. With one billion people hungry, another one billion undernourished and a further one billion “substantially” over-consuming, the Global Food andRead More …
Filed Under: Agro-ecology and Economics
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