Publications Recommended by Individual SFIAR Members

Adrian Dubock, independent consultant, formerly Syngenta

IAASTD – Process and structural issues
Harry Swaine and Adrian Dubock. 2008

Dueling Visions for a Hungry World 486kb
Erik Stokstad in: Science 14 March 2008: Vol. 319. no. 5869, pp. 1474 - 1476

The real GM food scandal 489kb
Essay by Dick Taverne in: Prospect, November 2007, pp. 24 - 27

Another inconvenient truth 59kb
Editorial in: Nature Biotechnology, Volume 25, Number 12, December 2007, p. 1330

Organic agriculture cannot feed the world 102kb
D.J. Connor in: Field Crops Research 106 (2008) 187–190

Organic agriculture can contribute to fighting hunger. But chemical fertilizers needed to feed the world 21kb
FAO News, 10 December 2007
 

Tina Goethe, Swissaid

Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty & Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa 210kb Eric Holt-Gimenez, Miguel A. Altieri, Peter Rosset. Food First Policy Brief No.12. October 2006.
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Adrian Dubock, Syngenta AG

Good food? Why ethical shopping harms the world 787kb
Economist, December 9th-15th 2006

Bill & Melinda Gates, Rockefeller Foundations Form Alliance to Help Spur “Green Revolution” in Africa
announcement by Bill & Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations. 12 Sept. 2006.

Possible Source of Bad Spinach Is Named as Outbreak Widens
The New York Times. September 16, 2006.

Pesticides & humanity: The Benefits of Using Pesticides 1104kb
Jerry Cooper, Hans Dobson. Natural Resources Institute

Death in The Pot? 23kb
Nisbet Garry. Syngenta News. 23. October 2006

Growing Green. The challenge of sustainable agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa 774kb
Douglas Southgate and Douglas Graham. Sustainable Development Network, August 2006.

Getting Africa to Feed Itself 942kb
James Shikwati. Inter Region Economic Network (IREN). Syngenta Lecture Basel, Switzerland, September 21, 2006.

Achieving Africa’s Green Revolution: Partnerships for improved input distribution 1937kb
Akin Adesina. The Rockefeller Foundation. Presentation at Oslo Africa Green Revolution Conference, 31 Aug. to 1 Sept. 2006.

The March of Unreason. Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism (not available online)
Dick Taverne. Oxford University Press. March 2005.