CHURCHVILLE, VA—The airwaves are full of the “secret†codes and emails from Britain’s Hadley climate research center. New Zealand is looking at the upward trend in the “official†graph of its recent temperatures—while the country’s raw temperature data show no warming. Now researchers are digging into the Hadley data to find if the rest of [...]
CHURCHVILLE, VA—“Environmentalists are standing in the way of feeding humanity through their opposition to biotechnology, farm chemicals and nitrogen fertilizerâ€â€”straight talk from billionaire Bill Gates at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines October 15th Â
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Gates could have said with equal truth that the same environmentalists, by demanding organic-only farming, are risking the future [...]
CHURCHVILLE, VA—It was 1950. World War II, with its 40 million deaths, was over. Doctors were conquering smallpox with vaccines, protecting millions from malaria and typhus with new pesticides, and treating infections with the miraculous new antibiotics.
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Then we realized that humanity was still at massive risk—from hunger. With death rates falling radically, there was [...]
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Global warming alarmists say at least a million wildlife species will ultimately be lost because the plants, trees and animals won’t be able to “keep up†with the rapid pace of man-made global warming. Laying aside the fact that global temperatures are currently declining instead of warming, how can the wild species hopefully adapt [...]
Alex A. Avery
Humanity faces a daunting task as we enter the 21st century: Feeding a larger, more affluent world a better diet while at the same time conserving wildlife habitat, biodiversity and ecological integrity.
The world is in the midst of the largest surge in global population in human history. Population growth rates peaked in 1996; [...]
Alex A. Avery
Presentation at the American Phytopathological Society’s World Food Crisis Symposium
The world agricultural community has focused on fighting hunger and meeting the needs of humanity for decades. It has been the rallying cry of farmers in all lands. The good news is that the world currently experiences the lowest overall hunger and malnutrition [...]
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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.
