Farmers can save the world

Are you worried about the food crisis? In fact you shouldn’t be, as the solution to the food crisis is very simple. Read along before you decide we’re nuts.

2,5 billion persons on this planet are living of agriculture; farmers and their children. They are perfectly capable of providing enough food for the world. Anywhere where family farmers own sufficient and good land, as well as the resources to invest in a productive agriculture, they deliver a truly splendid performance. They can be the solution to the stress we, all of us, have been chasing all through the world: we have abandoned agriculture and the farmers, halted the food production, let the prices increase as well as hunger and malnutrition; we’d rather fill our fuel tanks with so-called bio-fuel than have people eat. Until recently, hunger was mainly a rural phenomenon. Now, even the ever more numerous poor city dwellers can no longer get food at affordable prices.

How can we solve this problem? Read more about VECO's vision and analysis.

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