1998-01-19 The goals of the symposium are to share case studies and insights related to human nutrition and livestock, to strengthen the links between livestock programs and human nutrition, to examine protocols to document nutritional impact in the field, and to strengthen collaboration between scientists,...
In this volume, the authors propose a global strategy to restore food security and a budget to implement it. Their global food security budget calls for stepped-up expenditures on both sides of the food/population equation. It includes investments not only to provide family planning services to...
Norman Borlaug is the mild-mannered maverick who lifted the world s food supply and saved a billion lives. He died the day before this book went to press. Having spent more than a decade assessing him and his contributions, the author sadly appended a few thoughts that included the following:...
Having received the Nobel Prize for Peace, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal, Norman Borlaug ranks beside Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa. But few people know his name. Our Daily Breadshows why Borlaug should also be a household name. It...
Dr. Norman Borlaug, one of the world's greatest heroes, is the most highly-decorated individual of our time. He is credited with saving over a billion prople from starvation. Dr. Borlaug is only one of five people in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the...
The Survival of Civilization presents the profound synthesis of thought and principle that has emerged from John Hamaker's studies, and is found to be supported by advanced research proceeding from all the scientific disciplines he draws upon-from soil microbiology to nutritional science, glacial...
The first issue of DEEP on food security, prepared by the Liasison Committee of Develoment NGOs to the European Union focused on international and macroeconomic influences on food security. This issue takes a domestic approach in two senses. It considers those policy influences which can be...
Feast or Famine explores virtually every aspect of food production from the farm to the table, and untangles the rhetoric that surrounds agricultural ecology, agribusiness, and the hob-goblin of tax-supported subsidies.