https://www.policyforum.net/food-for-thought/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Sun, 05 Jul 2015 05:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://www.policyforum.net/food-for-thought/#comment-1363 Sun, 05 Jul 2015 05:36:56 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=5001#comment-1363 That’s why I’m in Japan, food security policies need personnel who can contribute to its implementation.. PNG is blessed with natural resources but they have a self life. We havent reached the point yet where feeding the population will be the name of the game. Well, factors like climate change, global warming, forest destruction will certainly contribute to speeding up the process . In Japan, they have began preparing for this crisis well before the great wars. They are targeting and training developing countries who will grow the food that will feed its population. They are also storing plant genes in huge gene banks that store them up to 2,000 years. R&D of new varieties with soil-less culture are all part of the bigger worldwide food policy program. Japan has began a program to grow food in space. Also, they have developed the technology to store a square meal of protein ,rice, vegetables and soup in a package that will last for weeks. Why are they concentrating their resources in agriculture? Do they know something we don’t know?

]]> https://www.policyforum.net/food-for-thought/#comment-3929 Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:42:34 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=5001#comment-3929 When that day comes a bag of potatoes will have power over a bar of gold, barrel of oil, shipment of LNG etc etc :)

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