Source: The Economist
Credits: Uncredited
Dated: 2011-02-24
A special report on feeding the world
A prospect of plenty
For the first time in history, the whole of mankind may get enough to eat
FOR
10,000 years farmers have produced food for mankind. That has been the
basis of life. “When tillage begins,” wrote Daniel Webster, “other arts
follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilisation.”