Food & Water

International agriculture report calls for paradigm shift

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Sixty countries backed by the World Bank and most UN bodies yesterday called for radical changes in world farming to avert increasing regional food shortages, escalating prices and growing environmental problems.
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2,500-page International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)

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– Change in farming can feed world
– UNESCO calls for move away from fossil fuels in agriculture
– ‘Increase agricultural productivity, reduce footprint’ (project director)

Manufactured foodscape

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It has been a truism from the beginning of civilization that cities require stocks of grain, surpluses that can last a year or even two to sustain them through drought or war. In the last two decades, the champions of the globalized trade system have turned that truism on its head and foolishly convinced governments and their leaders that food production and storage can be largely left to the marketplace. All that is changing rather quickly.