NURTURING AND NOURISHING THE WORLD¿S POOR: IMPORTANT ROLES FOR HORTICULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

In a time of increasingly serious environmental constraints and inequitable wealth distribution, progress toward nurturing and nourishing the world’s poor requires serious attention to the needs and the potential of smallholder farmers in developing countries.
These farmers hold the key to protecting important resources, feeding an increasingly urbanized population, and reducing the malnutrition and endemic poverty prevalent in rural areas of so many countries.
Horticultural crops, produced for home and market with sustainable precision agriculture technology, have the potential to improve nutrition and reduce poverty of small land holders.
Neither the high input agriculture practiced in the ‘north’ nor the organic/peasant farming of past centuries will provide the food security, wealth creation and environmental stewardship needed for sustainable development.

XXVI International Horticultural Congress: Horticulture, Art and Science for Life – The Colloquia Presentations

I. Serageldin

smallholder farmers, urban and peri-urban agriculture, wealth distribution, poverty reduction, food security, malnutrition, life quality, environmental stewardship, sustainable precision farming, research paradigms, valuing the new biology

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2004.642.2