"Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available. We just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm, managing agriculture holistically, financing the policies that under gird it holistically," says Clifford Allan Redin Savory, the Zimbabwean ecologist, livestock farmer and environmentalist.
Evidence from green revolution as practised in the Asia suggests that a boost in agriculture productivity could usher in food security and social transformation towards sustainable development.
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