Kofi Anin was in town today to open the new academic year at the University - the ex UN Secretary General himself. A huge publicity coup for a small town with an agricultural university. There were cops and broadcast vehicles and all the media circus you might expect . He was giving a talk about food, agriculture and development. I didn't get an invite (obviously I should network harder), but then neither did any of the friends I called who do work for the university - invites were restricted for the elite of professors and upper tier of administrators.
I want to find out what he said about food and agriculture. There is quite a war of brains going on about how the world can feed itself. Sustainable agriculture or GM foods? That war goes on in the university too. Is the future of food going to rest in the hands of a few multinationals or in learning with poor peasant farmers about how to improve their productivity? What' s the official line this year and what are the grassroots feelings?
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Combination, I think. The "Golden Rice" experiment was a good example, where rice was engineered to have additional nutrients for use by 3rd world farmers.
Nutrients that were plentiful in people's diets before they were switched over to monoculture farming however.
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