WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! World farm area could support 10 bln people-experts Updated 10:00 AM ET August 22, 2000 HAMBURG (Reuters) - Current world cropland has the potential to support up to 10 billion people, almost twice the world's population, but disease, weather problems and water shortages ravage food production, scientists said Tuesday. "More than 50 percent of the yield potential is lost to diseases, weather conditions, a shortage of water and inadequate research," Hartwig Geiger, professor of genetics at the Hohenheim University, told a conference on crop science. Congress chairman Hubert Spiertz, another geneticist, agreed with Geiger's figures, but warned that the full yield potential of the world's farmed areas could never be realized. "That potential could never be fully achieved," he told a news conference on the last day of the international congress. Geiger said genetic research and the development of genetically modified (GM) crops can provide answers to malnutrition problems such as a lack of provitamin A. According to the World Health Organization, 125 million children worldwide suffer from a shortage of provitamin A, which can lead to blindness in the worst cases. Provitamin A deficiency was most severe in countries where rice is the staple diet, and a recently developed GM rice variety can provide 80 percent of the minimum required provitamin A amount, Geiger said. The congress warned in a statement that the failure to feed a growing population in a sustainable way would lead to "enormous environmental damage, social dislocation and reduced economic growth that will effect the whole world." ^ REUTERS@ *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! ****************************************************************************** ******************* A vote for Bush or Gore is a vote to continue Clinton policies! A vote for Buchanan is a vote to continue America! Therefore a vote for Gore or Bush is a wasted vote for America! Don't waste your vote! Vote for Patrick Buchanan! Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey... Patrick Buchanan <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
