Ag needs to produce more nutrition, not volume

Ashley Walmsley
Updated May 30 2018 - 12:31pm, first published 12:30pm
RE-THINK: United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) agriculture officer, Dr David Nowell, says farming systems need to focus on producing nutritional food, not just increasing output volumes.
RE-THINK: United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) agriculture officer, Dr David Nowell, says farming systems need to focus on producing nutritional food, not just increasing output volumes.

YOU can feed people potato chips all day but it's not exactly beneficial consumption.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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