Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations (FAO) - The State Of Food And Agriculture: Innovation In Family Farming (Inglês)

Every era has its challenges. And each challenge demands specific responses. In the 1960s, famine threatened South Asia. The Green Revolution was the right answer to the looming food crisis that the world faced half a century ago. Fortunately, today we are not facing the prospect of large-scale famine – but we are at a crossroads. About 842 million people remain chronically hungry because they cannot afford to eat adequately, despite the fact that the world is no longer short of food. In a disconcerting paradox, more than 70 percent of the world’s food-insecure people live in rural areas in developing countries. Many of them are low-paid farm labourers or subsistence producers who may have difficulty in meeting their families’ food needs.

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