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Keatinge, J.D.H. 2013. 8th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Reading UK on 17 June 2013.

From the conclusion:

I believe horticulture is a necessary tool for the alleviation of poverty and the elimination of micronutrient malnutrition globally. It can serve as a mechanism to enhance social equity, not only between genders but also for many other potentially disadvantaged groups, such as HIV positive people and refugees. Horticulture can help people who have experienced disasters such as wars, earthquakes, floods or fires to begin the process of rebuilding their livelihoods. Investment in a few packets of seed and simple tools to tend a vegetable plot can provide food, nutrition and the means to generate cash comparatively quickly from small land holdings. I believe that if Hugh Bunting were starting his career today, he would be distressed, as I am, by the persistence of unnecessary hunger, malnutrition and poverty around the world. I am certain he would be a strong advocate for horticulture in the developing world, and that he would agree with much of what I have argued in this paper.