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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Grow Biointensive .Org
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:43:49 -0400



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] Monsanto Plans to Boost Food Supply
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:09:30 -0400
From: Laura Lengnick <lengnick@WARREN-WILSON.EDU>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU


Corn, soybeans and cotton are food? Has anybody in this policy debate
considered small-scale, local food production using biointensive
techniques as a part of the solution? 90% reduction in inputs of all
kinds, 400% increase in crop yields. And not a penny needed to be spent
on research - Biointensive is ready to address the problem NOW. Read
more about it at http://www.growbiointensive.org/



Monsanto Plans to Boost Food Supply
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/business/worldbusiness/05crop.html?em&ex=
1212724800&en=13c31749831dd592&ei=5087%0A)

By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: June 5, 2008, NYTimes
Monsanto, the leader in agricultural biotechnology, pledged Wednesday to
develop seeds that would double the yields of corn, soybeans and cotton by
2030 and would require 30 percent less water, land and energy to grow. The announcement, coming as world leaders are meeting in Rome to discuss
rising food prices and growing food shortages, appears to be aimed at least
in part at winning acceptance of genetically modified crops by showing that
they can play a major role in feeding the world. Much of what is in the commitment are things the company was doing anyway,
though it now becomes a formal goal.





  • [permaculture] Grow Biointensive .Org, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 06/10/2008

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