Professor Peter Gregory welcomes food security study
ByNews reporter
The director and chief executive of the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) has welcomed a UK government-commissioned study into food security.
Professor Peter Gregory was one of the leading scientists who worked on the study that called for urgent action to avert global hunger.
“This report contributes to the agenda for research on food security,” he said.
“SCRI will continue to contribute to this through its work on breeding new crop varieties that resist diseases and use fertilisers and water efficiently and by developing new management systems to promote sustainable crop production practices.”
The report predicts that current systems of food supply are not sustainable and will fail to end hunger unless radically redesigned.
It is the culmination of a project to examine how a future nine billion global population can be fed sustainably.
