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How To Feed The World

Posted by Hemos on from the in-perfect-harmony dept.

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.

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  1. Soylent Green Is People by codexus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, I just had to say it.

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  2. Re:Over-population is real but it begs the questio by dzurn · · Score: 1, Funny
    Its because uneducated people need a lot more space to feed themselves than weducated people.
    And "weducated" people need more room to make fools of themselves in public...
  3. Re:sustainable? by Tune · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Is this really a technological problem?

    To Dr. Norman Borlaug it is indeed. That's exactly what makes him into the "mad scientist" stereotype. His "super" wheats created both the solution to startvation in total numbers AND increased the inbalance in distribution of food. And believe it or not, he thinks he did good and could have done better through better technologies... If only he would show a similar remorse to Alfred Nobel's after seeing the effects of his aggriculture & explosives chemistry.

    Sad.

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