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Category: CGFI Reports

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Do We Want Food, Forests, or Wildlife?

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Conservationists and farmers, traditional antagonists, now demonstrate a remarkable degree of consensus: improving productivity and sustainability of agriculture on existing farmland is urgent for the survival of both wildlife and mankind.

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Farming to Sustain the Environment

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The large increase in world food needs during the next fifty years will amplify the consequences of any policies and practices that lower farm productivity. Today’s modern high-yield farming practices are continuing to change and improve in efficiency, safety, and sensitivity to the environmnet in direct proportion to our investments in agricultural research and [...]

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A Contract with Rural America

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U.S. Farm subsidies and conservation programs need to be modified to avoid wasting good U.S. cropland. That would benefit farmers and other rural residents and supply food for a world which must triple its farm output during the next 45 years.

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Poverty Won’t Save the Planet

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The “Green” ecology movement has made environmentalism a global concern; however, it has been unable to offer helpful solutions for the many crises it has identified. The Greens are in real danger of giving environmentalism a bad name, because their short list of dangers has been drawn up with too little science and far [...]