The rise in the world prices for food has focused attention on the increased yields of a new way of growing rice:
Many a professor dreams of revolution. But Norman T. Uphoff, working in a leafy corner of the Cornell University campus, is leading an inconspicuous one centered on solving the global food crisis. The secret, he says, is a new way of growing rice. . . .
Read the whole thing for a hopeful development as well as a story of resistance by a scientific establishment convinced that a new idea cannot work.