You Can't Build A Peaceful World On

Even If You Could Use All The Organic Material That You Have--the Animal Manures, The Human Waste, The Plant Residues--and Get Them Back On The Soil, You Couldn't Feed More Than 4 Billion People. In Addition, If All Agriculture Were Organic, You Would Have To Increase Cropland Area Dramatically, Spreading Out Into Marginal Areas And Cutting Down Millions Of Acres Of Forests.

I Now Say That The World Has The Technology - Either Available Or Well Advanced In The Research Pipeline - To Feed On A Sustainable Basis A Population Of 10 Billion People. The More Pertinent Question Today Is Whether Farmers And Ranchers Will Be Permitted To Use This New Technology? While The Affluent Nations Can Certainly Afford To Adopt Ultra Low-risk Positions, And Pay More For Food Produced By The So-called "organic" Methods, The One Billion Chronically Undernourished People Of The Low Income, Food-deficit Nations Cannot.

The Green Revolution Has An Entirely Different Meaning To Most People In The Affluent Nations Of The Privileged World Than To Those In The Developing Nations Of The Forgotten World.

Yet Food Is Something That Is Taken For Granted By Most World Leaders Despite The Fact That More Than Half Of The Population Of The World Is Hungry.

The Forgotten World Is Made Up Primarily Of The Developing Nations, Where Most Of The People, Comprising More Than Fifty Percent Of The Total World Population, Live In Poverty, With Hunger As A Constant Companion And Fear Of Famine A Continual Menace.