<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0daae4fe-97ad-41fe-9023-6a0d4f2ef1bd/441835E6-9943-4760-AB93-D7657C783269/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.farmersguardian.com/news/experts-call-for-70pc-increase-in-food-production/28302.article" href="http://www.farmersguardian.com/news/experts-call-for-70pc-increase-in-food-production/28302.article" style="font-size: 11px;">www.farmersguardian.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.farmersguardian.com/news/experts-call-for-70pc-increase-in-food-production/28302.article"><P>FARMERS will need to increase their productivity by 70 per cent if they are to produce enough food by 2050, experts have warned.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.farmersguardian.com/news/experts-call-for-70pc-increase-in-food-production/28302.article"><P>Speaking at the <A href="http://www.fao.org/wsfs/forum2050/wsfs-forum/en/" linkindex="45">High-Level Expert Forum on How to Feed the World</A>, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said there would need to be major improvements in yield and cropping if farmers are to meet the challenge.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.farmersguardian.com/news/experts-call-for-70pc-increase-in-food-production/28302.article"><P>FAO director general Jaques Diouf told delegates at the two-day conference agriculture had ‘no choice’ but to respond to the challenge.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.farmersguardian.com/news/experts-call-for-70pc-increase-in-food-production/28302.article">“The combined effect of population growth, strong income growth and urbanisation… is expected to result in almost the doubling of demand for food, feed and fibre. Agriculture will have no choice but to be more productive.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.farmersguardian.com/news/experts-call-for-70pc-increase-in-food-production/28302.article"><P>The FAO used the event to call on governments across the world to increase aid to agriculture from the $7.9 billion a year currently being invested to a total of $44 billion a year which the group estimates will be needed to meet those challenges.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/441835E6-9943-4760-AB93-D7657C783269/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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