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Facts about Agriculture and Sustainability
Challenges for Agriculture, Environment, Farmers and Future Generations
Produce More
Helping farmers meet the needs of a growing planet.
Conserve More
Preserving natural resources for future generations.
Improve Farmers' Lives
Increasing incomes and standards of living.
Producing More, Conserving More
Hugh Grant on Growing Yield
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of food, nutrition and public policy and professor of applied economics at Cornell University
Dr. Klaus Ammann, a professor of botany and former director of the botanical gardens in Bern, Switzerland
Elizabeth Jele, South African small-holder grower
After 40 years of farming, Seferino Cosme describes the benefits he and his family have experienced since adopting GM corn, including greater income and an improvement in their livelihood.
US corn and soybean grower Gordon Wassenaar is excited about the numerous changes made possible by GM crops -- including the opportunity for third-world farmers to increase food production.
Eknath Shivram Pandit farms 25 acres of cotton and corn in India. He first planted biotech crops in 2004 and benefits from higher yields and increased income for his family.
