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"The abolition of hunger needs a re-dedication just as in the 19th century when some people looked around and said that the existence of slavery was unacceptable and unconscionable and that it degraded not just the slaves themselves, but all those who lived in the same time that slavery existed. These people were called 'abolitionists.'

I say today we should look around the world and say that a billion people going hungry is unconscionable and unacceptable. We should become the 'new abolitionists' against the scourge of hunger."

Ismail Serageldin, chair of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

5 - Till death do us part: Dolphins swim, and die with the tuna sought by Mexican fishermen. A U.S. tuna embargo has forced a change.

15 - The Green Revolution revisited: Research and technology boosted yields in the 1960s and 70s but these may be unsustainable. Whither the new Green Revolution?

48 - The busiest people: In advance of the Fifth International Conference on Women in Beijing, a look at farm women, the load they bear and their need for extension services.

53 - The IPM toolbox: A new book on sustainable methods of pest control ranges from letting ducks do the work to injecting maize with pesticide.

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Collaborating on this issue: Delia Kennedy, Lorenza Manzi.

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