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Brought new crop strains, machinery, pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals to world agriculture, which boosted yields dramatically.
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Foreign Aid dedicated to developing-world agriculture is 20%
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During the mid-1980s, the United Nations helped 9 percent of Pakistani farmesrs in non-irrigated areas invest in metal grain storage containers in order to replace jute bags and mud constructions. Cut farmers losses by up to 70 percent.
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Data from Kampala, Uganda, in the 1990s, suggest that children in farming households were better noursihed than those in non-farming households.
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The milk losses in East Africa and the Near East amounted to $90 million
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Foreign Aid dedicated to devolping-world agriculture is 3 or 4% (20% in 1980s)
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The American Planning Association adopted a policy that encourages its members to help build "stonger, sustainable, and more self-reliant" local food systems.
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Food now has to travel further from the farms to the famiies.
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In the wake of the 2008 food crisis, the government of the Philippinesannounced heavy new investment in rice-drying machinesto address the losses of 25-50 percent suffered by Asian rice growers.
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This study found out that 96 percent of stored maize samples contained toxic fuminosins, which resulted from the growth of mold.
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In Kenya, the 2009 National Land Policy has a section on urban agriculture and forestry
