José Graziano da Silva is Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
ROME, Mar 13 2015 (IPS) – Artificial meat. Indoor aquaculture. Vertical farms. Irrigation drones. Once the realm of science fiction, these things are now fact. Food production is going high tech – at least, in some places.
But the vast majority of the world s farmers still face that old and fundamental fact: their crops, their very livelihoods, depend on how Mother Nature treats them. Over 80 percent of world agriculture today remains dependent on the rains, just as it did 10,000 years ago.
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