Food Safety and the Food Crisis
Written by Gerel and Wayne Roa | Issue: May 2008

Recent news finds politics constantly competing with the GLOBAL food
crisis as the hottest buzz of the day. The obvious solution to
dwindling food supplies is of course to increase production by
planting more crops, raising more livestock, and building more
fishponds. With this comes increased fertilizer and feed use.

The business opportunities here are quite obvious. But the drawbacks
are clear. For one thing, increased use of fertilizers, pesticides,
and feeds means more pollution. Several types of cancers, algal
blooms, and species extinction have been linked by countless studies
to farm-originated pollution.

Farm Level Production Losses

Last December, we went to Cagayan Province on a project with the
Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC).

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Cheers!

Gerel Roa
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