Food Shortage Looming if Crop Focus Isn't Altered by Jim Goodman
As a child I was told to clean my plate because there were people starving in China. It seemed silly. How would getting sick help hungry Chinese? That was in the 1950s, the heart of the green revolution.

After college I was ready to farm as one of the green revolutionaries. I was ready to feed the world and open the cornucopia to everyone. Now, 40 years later, I admit I was wrong — high-tech agriculture wasn’t the answer. There is still plenty of hunger in the world, and it looks like our daily bread could get a lot more expensive.

In 1974 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that by 1980 “not a single child should go to bed hungry.”
When the U.N. General Assembly opened the Second United Nations Development Decade in 1980, it set 2000 as the new deadline for eliminating hunger.

In 2000 the U.N. set 2015 as the target date for completion of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals — eight goals that respond to the world’s main development challenges. The first of these is, you guessed it, ending extreme poverty and hunger.

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