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Thursday, June 05, 2008 --- 77 days ago http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/current-affairs/44952-norman-borlaug-food-crisi
| Marginal Revolution: Norman Borlaug on the Food Crisis (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/06/norman-borlaug.html) ---Quote--- Here is Norman Borlaug, father of the green revolution, from about a decade ago but highly relevant today: ---Quote--- Yields can still be increased by 50-100% in much of the Indian sub-Continent, Latin America, the former USSR and Eastern Europe, and by 100-200% in much of sub-Saharan Africa, providing political stability is maintained, bureaucracies that destroys entrepreneurial initiative are reigned in, and their researchers and extension workers devote more energy to putting science and technology to work at the farm level.... I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well-advanced in the research pipeline - to feed a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology. Extremists in the environmental movement from the rich nations seem to be doing everything they can to stop scientific progress in its tracks. Small, but vociferous and highly effective and well-funded, anti-science and technology groups are slowing the application of new technology, whether it be developed from biotechnology or more conventional methods of agricultural science. I am particularly alarmed by those who seek to deny small-scale farmers of the Third World -and especially those in sub-Sah ... |
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