Urgency and Potential of the Global Food Crisis
Editorial, the Washington Post | June 4, 2008
Providing food to starving populations - currently under discussion at the summit on the global food crisis in Rome - is less of a challenge than the problem of raising the world's agricultural productivity in the long term. ++ Industrialized countries need to increase investment in untapped and unproductive agricultural parts of Africa. ++ If this next green revolution occurs in a "greener" and more sustainable manner, and if scarce resources are applied wisely, the jump-starting of African agriculture could result in greater food security.
