date:Jan 05, 2013
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World food production needs a radical overhaul, but this should be based on less intensive practices that increase agricultural diversity, deliver resilience to the impacts of climate change and benefit local communities.
We must also switch to more sustainable diets globally, including reducing meat-consumption in wealthy nations and an end to food crops being used for biofuels.
The stance was countered at the Oxford conference by former anti-GM activist, Mark Lynas.
Mr Lynas apologised