Change the need and opportunity on food

Change seen as vital in future agriculture

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says changes in national and
international strategies are needed to help agriculture solve the
world's food problems while reducing pollution.

"Using resources more efficiently is what it will take to put
agriculture on a path to feed the expected future population of 9
billion people," said Nina Fedoroff, Penn State professor of biology
and life sciences.

"We especially need to do a better job using the nutrients, water and
energy needed to produce food," she said.

"We should ask how we can grow food with a minimum of water, maximum
of renewable energy and closest to where people are living," Fedoroff
said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in Washington Friday.

"Meeting the food needs of a still-growing human and domestic animal
population with less water while preserving remaining biodiversity is,
arguably, the most profound challenge of the 21st century," Fedoroff
said.

Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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