Evidence for Hope

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Sustainable agriculture

Gordon Conway

I can't remember when or where I first met Richard Sandbrook and who introduced us. It was probably at Richard Macrory's house in the early 1980s, at a gathering of environmental types, most of whom seem to have turned up on Harley Davidsons. I am probably maligning a lot of people but it was several incarnations ago for me.

What I do clearly remember is that Richard and I hit it off from the start. Both of us were passionately committed to changing the world, at least in helping to change the developing world, in a way that married development, the alleviation of poverty and environmental protection. We also both had a strong sense of humour; we were collectors of human follies, particularly the follies ...