Background
Conway, Gordon Richard was born on July 6, 1938 in Birmingham, England. Son of Cyril G. and Thelma (Goodwin) Conway.
(In 1997, over 700 million people are hungry. By 2025, the...)
In 1997, over 700 million people are hungry. By 2025, the population of the developing countries alone will be approximately seven billion. This book makes a compelling case for a second green revolution, which builds upon the successful technological transformation and yield gains of the first, but which focuses on a programme of broad-based agricultural development that not only delivers food security but creates employment and income. Professor Conway aruges that sustainable argicultural ecosystems can be developed by partnerships between scientists in the developed and developing countries, and that farmers must participate more actively in the process of development. He illustrates new thinking with field-based examples, and explains the application of molecular and cellular biology in the plant breeding process. The final chapter gives an account of the World Food Summit, held in Rome in Novemer 1996.
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(Today more than three quarters of a billion people go hun...)
Today more than three quarters of a billion people go hungry in a world where food is plentiful. A distinguished scientist here sets out an agenda for addressing this situation. Initially published in 1997 in the United Kingdom, the book is now...
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(Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and...)
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the ļæ½blue-babyļæ½ syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global warming. This book, which focuses on the UK, the USA and Third World countries, is the first comprehensive review of agriculture and pollution: it examines the facts and assesses the relative dangers of each pollution problem. It also considers the effects of pollution on agriculture itself ļæ½ crop yields are depressed and livestock damaged by various forms of pollution from all sources. The authors offer solutions to these apparently overwhelming problems, and describe existing technology which would allow us to deal with them. Originally published in 1991
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('The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced imme...)
'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of diminishing returns from intensive and intensively chemical agricultural production. What is needed is a new approach, equally revolutionary, but different in its ideas and style. The authors set out what they mean by 'sustainable' agriculture in the new era and look at the effects of international economic restraints and of national policies on the kind of development they see as necessary. They chart a path for sustainable livelihoods for Third World farmers enmeshed by forces outside their control. They describe methods of evaluating and resolving the tough trade-offs all levels of intervention, from international trade down to the individual farm. This book cannot provide all the answers, but it does indicate what international conditions we need to be aware of, what national policies we need to advocate and what approaches at the local level we need to adopt to ensure the goal of agricultural sustainability. Originally published in 1990
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Conway, Gordon Richard was born on July 6, 1938 in Birmingham, England. Son of Cyril G. and Thelma (Goodwin) Conway.
Bachelor of Science, University North Wales, Bangor, 1959. Diploma in agricultural science, Cambridge University, England, 1960. Diploma in tropical agriculture, University West Indies, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Davis, 1969. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Sussex, 1998. Doctor of Science (honorary), University West Indies, 1999.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Brighton, 2001. Doctor of Science (honorary), Open University, 2003.
He is currently Professor of International Development at Imperial College and Director of Agriculture for Impact, a grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on European support of agricultural development in Africa. In the early 1960s, working in Sabah, North Borneo, he became one of the pioneers of sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management. From 1970 to 1986, he was Professor of Environmental Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London.
He then directed the sustainable agriculture program of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London before becoming Representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992.
He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chair of the Institute of Development Studies. Conway was elected the eleventh President of The Rockefeller Foundation in April 1998, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007.
He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in 2005. He is a Deputy Lieutenant for East Sussex.
He was recently President of the Royal Geographical Society.
In June 2004 Conway was awarded an honorary degree from the Open University as Doctor of the University. In the same year he was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
In 2008, he was appointed a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Conway took up his appointment as the United Kingdom Department for International Developmentās Chief Scientific Adviser in January 2005.
He was listed on The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll and was president of the Royal Geographical Society.
Conway now works at Imperial College London and heads the Bill & Melinda Gates funded project Agriculture for Impact looking into ways to increase and enhance agricultural development for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and...)
('The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced imme...)
(Today more than three quarters of a billion people go hun...)
(Today more than three quarters of a billion people go hun...)
(In 1997, over 700 million people are hungry. By 2025, the...)
Deputy lieutenant County East Sussex, 2005. Fellow: Royal Society, American Academy Arts and Science. Member: City and Guilds Institute, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (honorary fellow), World Academy Arts and Sciences, Institute Biology (honorary), Royal Geography Society (president since 2006), Reform Club, St. Michael and St. George (knight Commander 2005).
Married Susan M. Mumford, March 2, 1965. Children: Simon G., Zoe M., Katherine E.