Davos Annual Meeting 2010 - Rethinking How to Feed the World
http://www.weforum.org 29.01.2010 Global food demand will double between now and 2050 as the world's population reaches 9.2 billion. How can the increased demand for food be met in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner? William H. Gates III, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA Ellen Kullman, Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, DuPont, USA Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of Vietnam; Chair, 2010 ASEAN Patricia A. Woertz, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), USA; Co-Chair of the Governors Meeting for Consumer Industries 2010; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 Moderated by Prannoy Roy, Chairman, New Delhi Television (NDTV), India
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Great discussion.
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Stop WTO helping corporations to monopolize food across the globe by producing GMO and Terminators. I have deliberately not used the term Terminator Seeds cause the basic character of SEED is evolution and multiplication, this character is not found in Terminators. Agriculture is a welfare and not business..... If we leave agriculture as welfare and concentrate and invest in the soils, make the soils living rather than killing it with artificial chemicals BIG GOAL - Make the soil LIVING.
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Very good information on this panel
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Mr Dung was only guest used translator. And what did he do in this Forum? What role did he play there? it is typically Vietnamese....shy and so simple to answer question.
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Poor moderation
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@TheCashistrash they do subsidize food for people who cant afford it. Its called EBT and im on it. You have to be a CITIZEN of the US and have an address. So do you think the government should give away food to illegals that come over to America? How do we pay for all the food? the same way we do for EBT. TAXES! no thanks im already struggling pretty badly and can barely keep clothes on my back!
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there is plenty of land and water for feeding everyone. These people are full are garbage and playing politics. The problem is distribution and greed. Here in the united states people would rather throw food away than prevent the prices of food to actually come down. Profits are more important to these people than actually feeding people. My opinion Food should be government subsidized. Food is an essential necessity no one should be without and food should be free
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What a load of rubbish.. People were starving before climate change, we have always had climate changes.. Independent farming would be a start. Without one centralised farm. You need multiple small farms to work in with the land. "I cant believe how long that guy raves pushing the GM food". A good method for the Fed banks around the world to inject cash flow into the system, would be to do this directly at a % into poverty communities with projects and hardware funded and produced.
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High productive seeds!!? Why do you think India has rejected GM seeds.. Look at what GM corn has done. And you can talk about it all you like, It is much more simple though.. Food grows by people putting plants in the ground - there are plenty of people available to do this. If you take out the object of money it could all be done tomorrow.. It is a bit more than about being creative.. It is about changing our ways.
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"Creative Capitalism" there lies a good concept.
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