How To Feed The World

Dr. Norman Borlaug, who helped create wheat strains in the 1960s that increased the production of farms throughout the world by ten fold, turned 90 last week. This "food hacker", and his fellow agricultural researchers, by launching the "Green Revolution", have done more to feed the world than anyone else before or since. He recently published an essay on the future of the world food supply entitled We can feed the world. Here's how.

Comments

Re:make 10 times more food

[duggy_92127]

Who modded this up?

Personally I think there is no moral obligation to turn every acre of land over to food production.

RTFA. Half of it was about producing higher-yield crops specifically so we don't destroy natural biodiversity by clearing forests to make them into low-yield farmland.

make 10 times more food and you'll have 10 times more people.

RTFA. It specifically talks about this argument and at least claims evidence that this has not been the case since the huge gains made in crop yields in the 60s.

Doug