2009-08-31 | permalink

Closing agriculture’s global productivity gap: Sustainably meeting the needs of a growing world

The enormity of the challenge faced by global agriculture in meeting the needs of our growing and more affluent population is widely accepted. Land, water and habitat constraints are tightening, as recognition grows of the critical need to protect these resources for future generations. Failure to meet these expectations sustainably has implications that transcend agriculture, with enormous ramifications for political stability in many parts of the world.

• Global Harvest Initiative, USA: Closing agriculture’s global productivity gap: Sustainably meeting the needs of a growing world
• Global Harvest Initiative, USA: About the Global Harvest Initiative
• University of California-Davis, USA: Regulatory woes blocked flow of agbiotech innovations