PRC Oped Appears in Newsday
Apr. 14, 2008Newsday has published “Long-term Solutions Needed to Feed the World,” an opinion piece by Bob Walker, PRC’s president. The column looks at the demographic implications of the international food crisis that has caused rioting in more than a dozen countries this year. In his commentary, Walker addresses the question: Faced with climate change, rising fertilizer and fuel costs, growing water scarcity, and changing global diet, can farmers plow enough new farmland and raise agricultural productivity enough to feed 9 billion people by midcentury?