Farmers versus eco-disaster

WHO do you call, when hurricanes kill thousands in the US, oil prices rise to record levels, and southern Europe burns up in a drought year?

Farmers can help to solve all these problems, and the importance of their role is cropping up more and more, as eco-disasters force world leaders to look more closely at the big picture.

Farmers couldn't do much about the catastrophic forest fires which engulfed Portugal and Spain this summer because too many of them had gone out of business.