I would suggest that there are no world authorities for feeding 10 billion people. As it is, the green revolution came with cheap oil. Food will only be harder to produce with less energy and more mouths to feed. Certainly I agree with Beth that the big companies are in it for the profit and not their concern for either sustainability or the human condition.
As Garret Hardin said - Nobody dies of overpopulation (of course, he was speaking tongue in cheek, because they die of disease, starvation, inadequate health care, extreme working conditions and so on and so forth, all due to overpopulation). Jim Wendee Holtcamp wrote on 24-Jun-10 12:13: > Who would you say are the world's leading authorities in agricultural > ecology (how can we feed the world given our rates of consumption, increased > meat demand, that kind of thing)? > > What questions are actively being addressed (besides the above) by academics > that are hot topics in ag ecology right now for both the US and > internationally? > > >From the Bering Sea.. > Wendee > > My adventures in the Bering Sea ~ > http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Wendee Holtcamp, M.S. Wildlife Ecology ~ @bohemianone > Freelance Writer * Photographer * Bohemian > http://www.wendeeholtcamp.com <http://www.wendeeholtcamp.com/> > http://bohemianadventures.blogspot.com > <http://bohemianadventures.blogspot.com/> > ~~ 6-wk Online Writing Course Starts July 24 (signup by Jun 17) ~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I'm Animal Planet's news blogger - http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news > >
