DES MOINES, Iowa — Panel participants at the 2011 World Food prize examined how access to technology and financing and improved regulatory measures could advance emerging markets.
获得贷款和信贷对于向农民提供更新的作物保护产品至关重要。然而，获得低成本的现有技术是改善新兴市场的第一步。
“We need to have existing technology in the hands of farmers in Africa before we even invent new ones,” said Namanga Ngongi, president, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). “The US has a great wealth of information and technology that could be put to great use in Africa.”
政府需要建立一个金融体系，为农民提供为他们的企业融资所需的运营资金。
“The number one impediment limiting the market is a solid financial system,” said Samuel Allen, Chairman and CEO, Deere& Co. “If farmers don’t have access to financing in good times and bad, you don’t drive the agriculture market forward.”
此外，涉及基本经济学原理的农民教育也很重要。
“The construction of capital markets can help farmers,” said Hugh Grant, CEO and president, Monsanto. “Farmers need to know how to trade supplies.”
格兰特补充说，新兴市场的农民开始认识到他们作物的价值，并开始根据世界市场定价。
然而，小组成员一致认为，管理机构是促进各自国家农业发展的关键。
“Governments need to help their own areas be productive and realize they can help others be productive,” said James Borel, executive vice president, DuPont.