A recent story from the Catholic News Service discusses how the Vatican has endorsed the idea of African farmers using biotechnology as a means of bringing themselves out of poverty.
Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, former secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said that new technologies “that can stimulate and sustain African farmers” must be
At the conclusion of their recent summit in Pittsburgh last week, world leaders warned that “sustained funding and targeted investments are urgently needed to improve long-term food security.’
Their final statement includes a series of recommendations related to food security and sustainable farming. Here are some quotes from the statement itself:
We called on the World Bank
Two veteran Wall Street Journal reporters, Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, have teamed up to write a book addressing one of the most pressing questions of the 21st-century: global hunger.
The authors ask why hunger persists when the technology and tools already exist to feed the world:
Since the time of the Green Revolution, the world has
Andrew Revkin, Environment Reporter at the New York Times, discusses the challenges of increasing future food production, as part of an online debate on the “Future of Food” hosted by Spiked.
Revkin notes the need for another green revolution, the first of which was inspired by the recently deceased Norman Borlaug in the 1950s and 1960s.
An advanced, unedited text of the final recommendations of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development is now available on its website.
Gerda Verburg, Chairperson of the Commission and the Netherlands’ Minister of Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality, said of the outcome:
Nothing less is needed than a revolution in ideas and a revolution in technologies, supported by
As a response to methane emission from rice production being flagged as part of the global climate debate, Thailand’s agricultural ministry, as reported in the Bangkok Post, has prioritised its research efforts towards developing climate-friendly rice strains.
Prasert Gosalvitra, Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives’ Rice Department said:
We are developing a number of
