The Media say “The agricultural crisis is coming after the financial crisis!”
Be careful.
This is a very important issue Yilgun, too many ignore the issue. With fuel shortage and water problems, many will have to look to new methods of satisfying their needs.
Oxfam is looking into this problem.
Agricultural ecologist Sir Gordon Conway delivered the 2008 Norman Borlaug Lecture from Iowa State University. He was one of the first to define the concept of sustainable agriculture.Sir Gordon pioneered integrated pest management in Borneo (Malaysia) in the 1960s, and developed agroecosystems analysis in Thailand. He has also been professor of Environmental Technology at Imperial College in London (1970-86), worked for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi (1988-92), and was elected as president of The Rockefeller Foundation in 1998.
Manufacturing a food crisis
Edited (3/6/2009) by alameda
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