Seeds of Hope (March 2000)Indian farmers from the southern stae of Karnataka showing the diversity of seed that their arid land can generate. From bottom left, going clockwise: mung (green gram); red gram; millet; horse gram; sorghum; wheat. (photo from the collection of Hugh Warwick
The world’s population is set to soar in the coming decades – but food supplies are already under pressure. Meanwhile, Britain and Europe have turned their backs on a great agricultural revolution, Clive Aslet writes .
Some friends had a memorable Christmas. They spent it with family in Belfast, where water could only be obtained by melting the snowman. Providentially they and the children had made a large one and it kept them going for two days, until the water supply returned.
They were of course infinitely better off than my relations in Brisbane, of whom I still anxiously await word. Both cases, however, illustrate how easily the life we all take for granted can be turned upside down. True, Queensland has suffered a deluge which in Biblical times would have been seen as an expression of extreme displeasure from above. But it took nothing more than some unusually cold weather to reduce Belfast to misery. The carefully calibrated machine that is a modern city broke under the strain. The most basic prerequisite of life suddenly went missing.
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My Comment: A sober post on what is coming down the pipeline .... read it all.
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