Separating wheat from chaff

摘要

If you wanted someone to come up with a grand plan to feed the world, you might be hard pressed to find a person with better credentials than Gordon Conway. Trained in the UK as an agricultural ecologist in the heyday of the green revolution, he has worked on food and economic development from Wales to the West Indies, Delhi to DC. He has worked for NGOs and the World Bank, been vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex and president of the Rockefeller Foundation.