August 27, 2008 World Food Crisis (Part III: New Technologies Tailored to Location) By Thomas R. DeGregori Over the past two days, I reviewed reasons for optimism and pessimism about food production. Today, let's take a closer look at how promising technological solutions to the current crisis must be tailored to the geographic regions that might benefit...
August 26, 2008 World Food Crisis (Part II: The Bad News -- and the Case of Africa) By Thomas R. DeGregori In spite of the unimaginable global transformations described in my blog post yesterday, per capita food production and consumption in many parts of Africa has actually declined...
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