2008-04-15 | permalink

IAASTD Report Released Today

The results of a painstaking examination of global agriculture were formally presented today with the release of the final report for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD).

The assessment explores how agriculture can be reinvented to feed the world's expanding population sustainably in an era of multiple challenges - not least those presented by climate change and a growing food crisis that has led to outbreaks of violence in a number of developing countries.

• Reuters: Free food trade threatens environment, poor
• The Guardian, UK: UN body urges agriculture reforms to stave off food crisis
• Inter Press Service: Reinventing Agriculture
• Inquirer.net: Farm practices must change to counter high food prices
• Inquirer.net: World must reform agriculture now or face dire crisis
• BBC: Global food system 'must change'