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Economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on Biotechnology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1N0lM2DP8o
I'm Jeffrey Sachs. I'm director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and I'm also director of the United Nations Millennium Project. … In September 2000, the leaders of the governments of the United Nations agreed to a set of ambitious — but achievable — targets to cut extreme poverty. …
Most parts of the world are achieving economic progress, but for about a billion people, you find an often a vicious circle of hunger, ill health, massive disease burden, environmental degradation, population pressures and poverty. … And millions of people literally are dying of their poverty. … They're too poor to get enough to eat, to have access to safe drinking water. …
They're dying. And what we see is that with very practical approaches — of investing in improved agriculture, of investing in improved infrastructure, of investing in basic health — not only will the quality of life for the poorest of the poor be raised tremendously, not only will millions of people who otherwise will die be able to stay alive, but also, they will begin the process of economic development. It will unlock the poverty trap and allow them to start moving forward.
Take any place on the planet that was once extremely poor and is now either developed or on its way to becoming a developed economy, you'll find almost inevitably an agricultural revolution at the start of that … — a big rise in productivity, in the amount of food grown per hectare of land. …
There's now promise in the case of many of the biotechnologies in agriculture of fortifying nutrients in places where the people are facing massive nutrient deficiencies — of course … traits that protect against local pests and pathogens. Now there's the possibility of drought-resistant varieties. … This would be a phenomenal breakthrough, especially for Africa, which is nearly a whole continent afflicted with the massive risk and reality of drought. …
You have a lot of African scientists who are right now saying, “This really fits our need. … This technology is so powerful because it brings in one little seed everything that's needed. … The seed's a great delivery.” …
… The great news is those technologies exist. … Getting those technologies to the poorest farmers is absolutely one of the keys to making the breakthrough out of extreme poverty. …
I believe that it's important to find ways to get powerful tools to the poor, … but to do it with the vision of investment, rather than a vision of simply a hand out. … If we give important technologies to grow more food in poor places — better seed varieties, better ways to manage soil nutrients, better ways to manage plant pathogens — … it's gonna create livelihoods. It's gonna create income in the villages. It's going to convert what is now sub-subsistence agriculture into commercial farming. And that is going to make this sustainable fundamentally. In other words, we're helping the poorest of the poor to invest in a sustainable future for themselves.
© 2006 Monsanto Company. All rights reserved. The copyright holder consents to the use of this material and the images in the published context only and solely for the purpose of promoting the benefits of agricultural biotechnology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1N0lM2DP8o
I'm Jeffrey Sachs. I'm director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and I'm also director of the United Nations Millennium Project. … In September 2000, the leaders of the governments of the United Nations agreed to a set of ambitious — but achievable — targets to cut extreme poverty. …
Most parts of the world are achieving economic progress, but for about a billion people, you find an often a vicious circle of hunger, ill health, massive disease burden, environmental degradation, population pressures and poverty. … And millions of people literally are dying of their poverty. … They're too poor to get enough to eat, to have access to safe drinking water. …
They're dying. And what we see is that with very practical approaches — of investing in improved agriculture, of investing in improved infrastructure, of investing in basic health — not only will the quality of life for the poorest of the poor be raised tremendously, not only will millions of people who otherwise will die be able to stay alive, but also, they will begin the process of economic development. It will unlock the poverty trap and allow them to start moving forward.
Take any place on the planet that was once extremely poor and is now either developed or on its way to becoming a developed economy, you'll find almost inevitably an agricultural revolution at the start of that … — a big rise in productivity, in the amount of food grown per hectare of land. …
There's now promise in the case of many of the biotechnologies in agriculture of fortifying nutrients in places where the people are facing massive nutrient deficiencies — of course … traits that protect against local pests and pathogens. Now there's the possibility of drought-resistant varieties. … This would be a phenomenal breakthrough, especially for Africa, which is nearly a whole continent afflicted with the massive risk and reality of drought. …
You have a lot of African scientists who are right now saying, “This really fits our need. … This technology is so powerful because it brings in one little seed everything that's needed. … The seed's a great delivery.” …
… The great news is those technologies exist. … Getting those technologies to the poorest farmers is absolutely one of the keys to making the breakthrough out of extreme poverty. …
I believe that it's important to find ways to get powerful tools to the poor, … but to do it with the vision of investment, rather than a vision of simply a hand out. … If we give important technologies to grow more food in poor places — better seed varieties, better ways to manage soil nutrients, better ways to manage plant pathogens — … it's gonna create livelihoods. It's gonna create income in the villages. It's going to convert what is now sub-subsistence agriculture into commercial farming. And that is going to make this sustainable fundamentally. In other words, we're helping the poorest of the poor to invest in a sustainable future for themselves.
© 2006 Monsanto Company. All rights reserved. The copyright holder consents to the use of this material and the images in the published context only and solely for the purpose of promoting the benefits of agricultural biotechnology.
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