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CAN ORGANIC FEED THE WORLD?
June 21, 2016
Kendra Klein, PhD
Staff Scientist
Friends of the Earth
795 million people suffer from chronic hunger UN FAO, 2015
• Climate change • Soil erosion & degradation • Water depletion & pollution • Loss of biodiversity
“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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National Geographic 1979
The New Yorker 2009
AVAILABLE AT WWW.FOE.ORG
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