4WAR FOOD

Neolithic Revolution or Agricultural Revolution

6%

Strategic branch of Economy

GUARANTEE OF INDEPENDENCE

“THERE IS NO SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RELY EXCLUSIVELY ON HELP FROM THE OTHERS!"

“THERE IS NO SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RELY EXCLUSIVELY ON HELP FROM THE OTHERS!"

provdes:• FOOD SECURITY• SOCIAL STABILITY• THE CORNERSTONE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT• RELIABLE SOURCE OF INCOME• RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE

FOODFEEDRENEWABLE ENERGY

GARDIAN OF SOVEREIGNTY

Agriculture accounts for 20-50% of Gross National Product (the actual importance being much higher, as a considerable part of agricultural production does not enter markets) and 50-80% of employment in most developing countries.

1806

Napoleon issued a decree appropriating one million francs for the establishment of sugar schools

Boston Tea Party, December 6, 1773.

OVERPOPULATION

Americans generally spend less than 10% of their income on food, but there are 2 billion people who live in poverty around the globe who spend 50 to 70 percent of their income on food.

If current practices continue, the totals will increase by nearly 50% in only four years—to 1.5 billion hungry persons by 2015 (WHO) - nearly 22% of the world population! (UN)

having insufficient food or other substances for good health and condition.

DISPROPORTION

MERGING INTENZIFICATION

1900

2016

Postmodern world

JunglePOSTMODERN IMPERIALISM IN TWO FORMS:

1. VOLUNTARY IMPERIALISM OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, operated by IMF and the World Bank

2. “IMPERIALISM OF NEIGHBOURS” Bosnia and “Kosovo” direct interventionUN protectoratesEurope provides aid:MilitaryPoliceJudgesCentral Bankers etc.

New doctrine•Limits on state sovereignty•Double standards, force, preemptive attack, deception

November 9, 1989

In 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: • Trade And Transactions• Capital And Investment Movements• Migration And Movement Of People• Dissemination Of Knowledge

GLOBALIZATION

“CHEMISTRY”

MONOCULTURE

INCTINCTIVE SELECION AND BREEDING

DEMOCRACY

GREEN REVOLUTION

INDUSTRIALIZATION

VARIABILITYENERGY

DISEASES & PESTSENVIRONMENT

BIODIVERSITYFAMINE

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

PRIVATIZATION

MONOPOLIZATION

THE ROAD OF INDUSTRIALIZATION

SCIENTIFIC BREEDING

THE ROAD OF LOOSING FREEDOM

FIRST COMPANIES

1900

1995

Battaglia del GranoNazareno Strampelli

Japanese wheat variety, Akakomughi was sent as a gift to Strampelli by F. Ingegnoli, an important seeds man based in Milan

In 1970 Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world

In 1970 Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world

In 1944, Dr. Borlaug participated in the Rockefeller Foundation's pioneering technical assistance program in MexicoIn 1944, Dr. Borlaug participated in the Rockefeller Foundation's pioneering technical assistance program in Mexico

Cecil Salmon

Green Revolution is unique because of its goal …

… not to protect national economy and/or sovereignty …

… but to “feed the World” …… AND?

3rd WORLD

SEED PRODUCTION

“In the history of civilization… the plowshare has been far more destructive than the sword.”

(Hilel, 1991)

Narrowing of genetic variability, genetic erosion, species loss means the erosion of knowledge.Loss of biological resources, which implies the loss of specific knowledge about them.

MONOCULTURE & BIODIVERSITY LOSS

20 mil. £

1987.

The case of Plant Breeding Institute at Cambridge.

How Margaret Thatcher destroyed public sector science

The sale of PBI to Unilever was a great loss to independent science, and of course a loss to humanity. 

The sale of PBI to Unilever was a great loss to independent science, and of course a loss to humanity. The first step before you privatise is to cut the life line. In this case, budget cuts and staff reduction programmes was actually aimed at stifling public sector research and thereby justify the need to bring inn private funding. This is exactly what happens in other parts of the world, including Serbia.

The first step before you privatise is to cut the life line. In this case, budget cuts and staff reduction programmes was actually aimed at stifling public sector research and thereby justify the need to bring inn private funding. This is exactly what happens in other parts of the world, including Serbia.

British-Dutch multinational Unilever is one of the world's leading consumer goods firms, selling some of the best known food, cleaning and personal care brands.

100 mil. $

1987-11-01 1£ = 1.7754$

In 1998 Unilever sold PBIC to Monsanto, who gradually reduced the work and finally sold the last remaining crop to a French co-operative and the site to developers.

The last pieces of the former Plant Breeding Institute buildings being removed from the site, 2009.

$525 mil.

2015.2007.

67%

SERBIA

In 1938, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

UKRAINE ROMANIA

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AUSTRIACANADA

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INSTITUTE OF FIELD AND VEGETABLE CROPS1149 REGISTERED CULTIVARS 742 INTERNATIONALY REGISTERED CULTIVARS

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0.35% GDP 4.3% 3.4% 2.4% 1.5% No. of researchers/10.000

people EU 24.8Slovenia 19.2Croatia 16.1Serbia 11.6

SCIENCE

0.67% GDPHIGH EDU.

Serbia is characterized by high biological diversity.Serbia is one of 158 centers of biological diversity with a biodiversity index of 0.718.There are 3662 plant taxa, 141 families, 766 genera, 3272 species and 390 subspecies in Serbia.

[THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA - MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND SPATIAL PLANNING

ADVANTAGES

However, Serbia hosts: · • 39 % of European vascular flora, · • 51 % of European fish fauna, · • 49 % of European reptile and amphibian fauna, · • 74 % of European bird fauna, · • 67 % of European mammal fauna.

Serbia’s 88,361 km2 is only 2.1% of European territory

ADVANTAGES

The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844

The first farmers’-credit cooperative in Vojvodina, established in 1846 in Bački Petrovac, was the third cooperative formed by that time in the world.

The first credit-farmers’ cooperative in the region of Central Serbia was founded in the village of Vranovo in 1894.

ADVANTAGES

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