IT IS hard to ignore the fact that we are facing a food crisis. As Â鶹´«Ã½ has reported, recent increases in the prices of staples such as rice, wheat and eggs could push 100 million people who have escaped from poverty back into it, and make life for the poor even more desperate. The cause seems simple: demand for grain and meat are rapidly rising, while production is failing to keep pace. What’s clearly required is another green revolution, one that can quickly boost crop yields to supply the world with the food it desperately needs.
That’s not the…
