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9-point plan to beat the food crisis
May 23, 2008
Many reasons have been cited for the ongoing food grain crisis: consumption overtaking production, lower annual yield growth, lack of land resources to raise acreage, reduced public investment in agricultural research and development, increase in population, adverse weather, pests, diseases etc.
What are the solutions?
According to International Rice Research Institute, Manila, in the near term, urgent actions from national governments and international agencies are needed on two fronts: rapidly exploiting existing technological opportunities for increasing rice yields and policy reforms to improve poorpeople’s food entitlements. Rice production can be revitalized, but there are no silver bullets.
The world community must invest now and for a long time to come. Some of the actions listed below deal with the immediate crisis while others provide long-term solutions to prevent future crises. IRRI is calling for the implementation of the following nine-point programme of short and long-term interventions. Read on. . .
Image: In this file picture labourer Kallo Kaur uses a sieve to separate wheat husks from the grain at a market in Amritsar.
Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images
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