Food crisis – May 2
Bush seeks $770 million more in world food aid
Israel and PO: Food troubles are here to stay
China: Dealing with a rice crisis
Sharon Astyk: Why food is complicated
Food
Fertilizers – May 2
NY Times: Shortages threaten farmers’ key tool: fertilizer
Vietnam’s farmers face paradox of the paddy
Scotsman: Global fertiliser shortage looming
Relocalization – May 2
Rethinking our food and fuel systems
Rob Hopkins: eco worrier
Totnes – their own currency
McKibben assesses environmentalism
Natural born survivors
Heinberg on resilient communities
Fertilizers: prices high and rising – Apr 30
Last big push for phosphate mining in Florida
More volatility in heated fertiliser market
Help phosphate-producing Western Sahara gain independence
Vietnamese fertiliser prices to rise this week
Food & agriculture – Apr 30
UN chief warns of civil unrest amid world food shortage
Scientist: we need a new agricultural revolution
Suburbanites turn yards into cash with minifarms
Sharon Astyk’s food independence challenge
Afghan famine
Urban design – Apr 30
Highlights from the 7th EcoCity World Summit
CNN covers Transition towns
New book: Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
Keeping fed
In spite of the monumental failures of Soviet agriculture, the overall structure of Soviet-style food delivery proved to be paradoxically resilient in the face of economic collapse and disruption. The combination of local food stockpiles administered by politicians conditioned to treat bread riots as career-ending calamities, the prevalence of government institutions that attended to the sustenance of their employees and plenty of kitchen gardens, meant that there was no starvation and very little malnutrition. But will fate be as kind to the United States? (Book excerpt)
Biofuels – Apr 30
Biotech bets on agrofuels
Colbert on ethanol and the energy war
Reuters: Cuba’s Fidel Castro warned of food crisis a year ago
Food & agriculture – Apr 29
Ban Ki-Moon to chair UN task force on food crisis – hunger threatens ‘more than 100 million’
Recession Diet just one way to tighten belt
The future of dirt
Food crisis – Apr 27
The troubles with food (food security vs food sovereignty)
Anti-hunger protests in Haiti
Avoidable hunger (subsidies)
Afghanistan food riots
Food & agriculture – Apr 27
WSJ: Load up the pantry
How much your groceries will cost in 10 years
Food miles and social dilemmas of imported foods
Sachs: How to end the global food shortage
Food & microorganisms – Apr 27
The real dirt on dirt
Post Harvest Technology (food preservation post peak)
Global hops shortage
Biodynamics and microorganisms
