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This 3 page paper is written in the style of a memo to the head of a non profit making organization, advocating that the policy adopted towards food production policies should not reject technology and intensive farming practices. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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may be seen as having a potentially influential role on the way that issues and values are considered by various stakeholder groups. Unlike commercial organizations with specific interests the non
profit making status gives the organization credibility. But it also leads to a passion where the reliance on donors leads to a potential susceptibility the values of those donors. A
recent trend, which has been noted in the media and seen in retail outlets, has been increased concern regarding the integrity and environmental nature of food, with the trend being
a desire to move to more natural production techniques (Paarlberg, 2010). In effect it has become socially fashionable to embrace organic concepts and reject many of the modern approach to
farming, such as intensive farming techniques, use of chemicals, introduction of new seed varieties to have a higher yield, all of which are seen as being unnatural and resulting in
harm to the environment. If these are the values of the donors the organization, dealing with food, it likely to find itself under increasing pressure to adopt these environmental values
within their charter and operations. Paarlberg (2010) argues that this approach is misleading when looking at global food security and the way in which the under nourished may be
fed. The issue for the communities in which poverty causes under nourishment it not an economic problem; it is one of food scarcity, which means the best solution is to
increase the food supply to the communities. It is argued that the best way of doing this is not a move towards organic and environmentally friendly farming, which tends
to be heavy on resources, but the adoption of modern farming methods and approaches. Paarlberg (2010) cites a great deal of supporting evidence, such as the introduction of high yielding
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