Billions more investment is needed in agriculture and food distribution systems around the world in the next few years, if widespread hunger is to be avoided, according to a group of leading scientists.

If that investment is directed towards sustainable forms of agriculture, then farming can also be made into a weapon in the fight against dangerous global warming, they said, as more environmentally friendly farming methods can result in soils absorbing carbon dioxide rather than releasing it.
Agriculture has been neglected in international climate change negotiations, but if governments persist in ignoring the problem then millions are likely to go hungry, according to a new report published on Wednesday morning, before the next round of negotiations in South Africa later this month.
"If you intensify agriculture to produce more food while producing less [greenhouse gas emissions] then you deliver benefits in terms of climate change as well – reducing emissions and increasing food security in vulnerable regions," said Sir John Beddington, the UK's chief scientist and one of the authors of the report, Achieving food security in the face of climate change, published by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, convened by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. (...)

The article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/16/agriculture-investment-hunger-scientists-warn

Sull'argomento:

http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2011-12-09/agricoltori-tutto-mondo-copiatevi-183840.shtml?uuid=AaWACsSE

The Report:
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/commission/reports

Basic information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGIAR