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CAN ORGANIC FEED THE WORLD? June 21, 2016 Kendra Klein, PhD Staff Scientist Friends of the Earth

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CAN ORGANIC FEED THE WORLD?

June 21, 2016

Kendra Klein, PhD

Staff Scientist

Friends of the Earth

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795 million people suffer from chronic hunger UN FAO, 2015

• Climate change • Soil erosion & degradation • Water depletion & pollution • Loss of biodiversity

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“Before we go back to organic agriculture in this country, somebody must decide which 50 million Americans we are going to let starve or go hungry.”

-Earl Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture, 1971

Can organic feed the world?

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AVAILABLE AT WWW.FOE.ORG

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National Geographic 1979

The New Yorker 2009

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AVAILABLE AT WWW.FOE.ORG

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Frances Moore Lappé

Co-Founder & Director

Small Planet Institute

John Reganold, PhD

Professor of Soil Science & Agroecology

Washington State University

Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD

Senior Staff Scientist

Pesticide Action Network

Lauren Ponisio, PhD

UC Riverside