Crop science : progress and prospects by Hartwig H Geiger; Josef N?osberger; Paul Christiaan Struik

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In the long run, this is a threat to food security. This may be overcome by better practices and by example. Introduction of N-fixation for new crops could be interesting, but it probably still remains in the distant future and will only be really helpful if poor farmers have economic access and do not resist genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Lastly, much more attention is required to recycling between production and consumption sites, even though this will increase cost. One problem is that low value waste, which is very variable, is often contaminated, and has to be upgraded and transported over significant distances to poor farmers.

Isolated programme interventions may bring some relief but are likely to fail in promoting long-term food security. Sustainable food security policy can only be successful if it integrates long-term population policies, economic development and productivity-enhancing strategies and natural resource conserving programmes with short-term actions to remove market distortions, to correct institutional failures, to design more effective policies and to move towards good governance. Thus, access to input, output, land and credit markets affects innovation acceptance and agricultural productivity.

Poor farmers trying to secure survival of their family today tend to lose sight of the needs of tomorrow. Their high time preference for present consumption reduces their efforts needed for preserving natural resources in the long run. In economic terms the costs of exploiting natural resources and of using up the environment beyond sustainability levels are not internalized; the market has not been able to attach monetary cost values to these effects. Industrialized countries have started to deal with markets’ inability of internalizing environmental costs through imposing rules and regulations The Future of Food Security 29 on the one hand and by levying taxes or paying incentives on the other.

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