Food prices on rise – Sept 2
Food prices set to surge 50% within five years
Britons hungry for organic fare, but prices up
Yemeni food price protests turn violent
Food prices set to surge 50% within five years
Britons hungry for organic fare, but prices up
Yemeni food price protests turn violent
Homespun living Pasadena family gets basics from own efforts
The green faith effect
Pope to youth: Save planet ‘before it is too late’
Milk is the new oil
Biofuels and small farmers
Food demand and climate straining soils
‘Get Local’ campaign aims at its neighbours
Australia:
Goodman warns of a rise in food prices
The nexus of water, energy and climate
Dirt isn’t so cheap after all
Humans now use 25% of the Earth’s productivity
Kenya: Biofuels likely to boost energy but increase hunger
The looming food crisis
Nothing is simple, not even biofuels
The power of produce (health claims)
Farming the concrete jungle
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands
Zimbabwe: Give fertilizer sector priority on power
Useful mutants, bred with radiation
Mutiny shakes US food aid industry
To eat …. or to drive?
Goodbye beautiful Britain
The agonies of agflation
Wheat prices reach record level
Wheat, forever? Perennial wheat crops
World hunger not an ideal spectator sport
Hurricane Dean robs Maya of livelihood: their trees
Story from the point of view of a farmer in an intentional community in a post-Peak Oil world several years from now.
Urgency and global warming: Interview with physicist Martin I. Hoffert
Topsoil loss – causes, effects and implications
Tipping points in the Earth system
Global warming to decimate China’s harvests
Chicago wheat gains on speculation U.S. export demand to rise
Uganda farmers use human urine as fertilizers, pesticide
Bullock brothers homestead- 25-years of permaculture
The bounty around us
What is new and controversial in the article is the assertion that we have passed the point of “Peak phosphorus” – the point of maximum production and consumption of phosphorus. This would mean that over time phosphorus will become more difficult to obtain, and more expensive. This would be a major problem for society, since without sufficient supplies of phosphorus we will have difficulty feeding ourselves.