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The ability of populations to grow faster than their food supplies has been recognised since Thomas Malthus. Will genetic engineering prove to be the launch platform for a quantum jump in agricultural output that will put and keep productivity ahead of demand? The jury, as they say, is still out and Debate on GMOs gives a glimpse of the extent of doubts, fears and misunderstandings that prevail on the subject.
Another area of long-standing controversy is nuclear energy, even when used for peaceful purposes: Focus on...spotlights nuclear techniques that are being used with great benefit in agriculture from soil and water management to crop breeding and from plant and animal nutrition to pest control.
With world commodity prices continuing at depressingly low levels, farmers are adopting varying strategies to remain financially viable: reducing costs for animal health by turning to ethnoveterinary medicine (Perspective); developing low cost-high value products such as organically grown coffee (News); and by diversifying from a dependence on low return commodity crops, such as rice and jute, to better paying fruit and vegetables (News).
Finally, it is self evident that planners, administrators and consultants should understand the overall context within which they work: geographical, social, economic and political. A new book, "Africa, biography of a continent" (In print) provides a lucid insight to a continent and its peoples, which remain centre-stage in agriculture and rural development.
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