Fearing food shortages, investors from wealthy countries are snapping up land in poor countries to grow food there. Is this development or exploitation? Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via New York Times (Most Emailed)
Rice provides a bit of an eye opener regarding moves to control lands in underdeveloped countries in order to feed people in wealthy countries. Unfortunately, he mentions only two ways to face the food crisis: increase yields, or increase planted area. He neglects the needed option of controlling population growth.
