FEW SURPRISES IN FARM MINISTERS’ DEMANDS
Discussions at this week’s meeting of European Union agriculture ministers had an inevitable predictability. The major subject was the farmers’ disadvantaged position in the food marketing chain....
View ArticleMORE FOOD WITHOUT MORE LAND?
If an increasing world population is to be adequately fed, food production has to be increased. Estimates vary on just how big the increase has to be. They range between increases of 45-50 per cent on...
View ArticleWHY THE WORLD NEEDS GM CROPS
Anyone who has studied the science of genetic modification of food crops knows full well that they pose no threat to human health or wellbeing. Likewise, they also know that they have the potential to...
View ArticleREALITIES OF THE FOOD FUTURE
Whatever dreams environmentalists may have of a world fed by a chemical-free organic agriculture, the hard reality is likely to be something very different. Laudable though the green farming paradigm...
View ArticleMORE FOOD MILES NONSENSE
The idiocies of the food miles thesis, the idea that every nation should seek self-sufficiency in food production to save the planet from global warming have received a further boost from the UK’s...
View ArticleSUSTAINING INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION
The world is going to need more food to meet the demand from an increase in the world population of at least thirty per cent in the next four decades. Of that there is little doubt. Increased...
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