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Towards a Conservation Strategy to Retain World Food and Biosphere Options

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This paper challenges widely held views (World Bank, UNDP, FAO), that even a growing world population could be fed many times over (Cornucopia) by increasing capital and technology investments in agriculture (Green Revolution). The fact is that fertile soils are lost more rapidly than new arable land is being gained. Monopolization of the seed trade by chemical industries furthers both the erosion of genetic resources and unsustainable energy-intensive farming. Loss of self-reliance, ecological instability and societal disruption is greatly increased, in particular in the Third World. A strategy that combines conservation with development is needed to preserve the world’s genetic diversity in order to meet future climatic and substrate opportunities.

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Hekstra, G.P. (1981). Towards a Conservation Strategy to Retain World Food and Biosphere Options. In: Bach, W., Pankrath, J., Schneider, S.H. (eds) Food-Climate Interactions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8563-6_15

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