o grow more food in poor places -
better seed varieties, better ways to manage soil nutrients, better ways to
manage plant pathogens - ... it's going to create livelihoods. It's going
to create income in the villages. It's going to convert what is now sub-
subsistence agriculture into commercial farming," says Dr. Jeffrey Sachs,
quetelet professor of Sustainable Development and professor of Health
Policy and Management at Columbia University, director of The Earth
Institute, and director of The United Nations Millennium Project.
"Looking ahead to the year 2050, we will have to produce the food and
fiber for something approaching 10 billion people," says Dr. Norman
Borlaug, who received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership role in
the "Green Revolution" to increase food production and currently serves as
senior consultant to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
(CIMMYT), and as president of the Sasakawa Africa Association. "Can we do
it? I say yes. If we continue to develop technology -- including more
widespread application of biotechnology."
In addition to Drs. Borlaug, James, Oniango'o and Sachs, the new video
features comments from:
* Dr. Klaus Ammann, honorary professor emeritus and former director of
the Botanical Garden at the University of Bern, Switzerland
* Dr. Francisco Aragao, senior researcher in Genetic Research and
Biotechnology at Embrapa in Brazil
* Dr. Roger Beachy, researcher and founding president of the
not-for-profit Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in the USA
* Dr. Laveesh Bhandari, economist and director of Indicus Analytics in
India
* Graham Brookes, agricultural economist and director of PG Economics in
England
* Mary Lee Chin, M.S., R.D. of Nutrition Edge Communications in the USA
* Dr. Luciano Di Ciero, scientific researcher in the Forest Genetic
Research and Biotechnology Laboratory a
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