Feeding and Greening the World: The Role of Internationl Agricultural Research

Will over-population, global poverty, widespread hunger and environmental degradation lead to the collapse of human civilization? This book provides a dispassionate analysis of the state of these problems in the world. It explains why the future should be faced with confidence. Progress in managing the world’s natural resources in ways that are sustainable - environmentally, economically, socially and nutritionally - is moving slowly because knowledge about the subject is limited. The increased knowledge that is needed can only come from the global network of agricultural research. Yet governments in both the North and the South are starving research of the resources that it must have. Unless present policies are changed, the international research network - mankind’s lifeline to the future - will be rendered ineffective. The author argues his case in a jargon-free style that should appeal to a wide range of readers concerned with the future of humankind.