Articles by Paul Virgo
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DEVELOPMENT: MORE FOOD, EXCEPT FOR THAT BILLION OR SO
Paul Virgo – TerraViva Europe,
5 Apr 2010
While agricultural research has made massive strides over the years in helping the world produce more food from the same amount of land, around one in six people, the 1.02 billion hungry, have not noticed.The populations of wealthier countries have abundant cheap food thanks to researchers’ efforts and, no doubt, many more people in the […]
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Paul Virgo – Terraviva Europe,
19 Nov 2009
The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others.There has been widespread alarm at a recent acceleration in purchases of farmland in developing countries, above all Africa, primarily by investors from the Middle and […]
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