The ideas interview: Gordon Conway
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1599132,00.html
Are we facing a future of death and famine? No, but we must learn to
love GM foods, hears John Sutherland
Monday October 24, 2005
The Guardian
Sir Gordon Conway is, by background, an applied ecologist. By
profession, however, he is a pragmatist, a philanthropist, but, above
all, an optimist. He lives and works on the upside of things. Not for
him the headlines of the past few weeks, with doom everywhere. If the
climate change don't get you, the avian flu must. The world, he
insists, has got better and will get better still.
"I've been in the development business all my adult life," says Conway,
who joined the government's Department for International Development
(DFID) as its chief scientific adviser in January. "I went to Borneo in
1960 and and I've seen countries like that transform themselves. I
first went to Indonesia in 1968, just after the enormous uprising and
the slaughter. It was a terrible place then. You go there now and it's
got to the point now that the DFID won't be funding it because it sees
Indonesia as a middle-income country. I've also worked a lot in
Thailand and I've seen that country transform over time. But you've got
to talk in terms of 10 to 20 years for a country to really progress."
Gordon Conway
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John Sutherland
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