Produce More Food, Naturally
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With a billion people hungry in the world today, we need a form of agriculture that’s more productive and less damaging to the environmental resources that our food system relies on. Olivier De Schutter – the UN special rapporteur on the right to food – says agro-ecology continues to rack up points as the solution to the problem – with major research to back it up.
The Belgian professor is a champion of agro-ecology, a science that stresses the need to work with nature, replacing the intensive model of agriculture that prevails today. In a recent interview, he cites a major study from Essex University in Britain – Reaping the Benefits: Science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture (Royal Society, October 2009) – which estimates that agro-ecology can bring us almost 80% more food than “conventional” farming!
It’s time for the world to sit up and take notice.
Read the full interview here, or check out the Royal Society report.
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