Rutgers Professor Carl Pray Can Discuss Global Food Crisis

The way the world grows its food will have to change radically to better serve the poor and hungry if the world is to cope with a growing population and climate change while avoiding social breakdown, escalating food prices and environmental collapse. That is the message from a new report from the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAAST), a major new report by over 400 scientists which was launched April 15.

RUTGERS PROFESSOR CARL PRAY is a coauthor of the IAAST report and can discuss its findings. He is chair of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He is also an adjunct professor and advisor of the Ph.D. Program and a member of the Board of Academic Advisors of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Science. The focus of his current research is agricultural science and technology policy in China, India, South Africa, and other developing countries. In the recent past he has studied how public policies could induce private companies to conduct research that would reduce hunger and poverty in developing countries, and the political economy of public sector research in developing countries.