Maybe agribusiness won't get the upper hand on all things related to the global food crisis. Maybe good old common sense and working with and not against nature will prevail. In today's New York Times there appears an article on startling results increasing rice yields, NOT with genetic engineering, NOT with an agribusiness terminator super seed, NOT with applications of golden (price!) chemicals and fertilizers, but with good old common sense and an understanding of how rice plants thrive: System of Rice Intensification or SRI.
Kudos to Norman T. Uphoff, a Cornell scientist who dared to go against the commercially profitable (for the fertilizer and seed conglomerates) farming trends. It takes courage to persevere in an atmosphere so tainted by commercial interests. After this exposure, I can only imagine the rumbles in the halls of greedy conglomerates!
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