Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I rather think that these white-gowned scientists in their laboratories don’t understand that the mentality that strives for triplets is not the best way to feed the world or to make farming sustainable.
Lester R. Brown: World facing huge new challenge on food front
Food price rises are “mass murder” – UN envoy
How hunger could topple regimes
We know secret of Joseph’s biblical pest control
EU set to scrap biofuels target amid fears of food crisis
Biofuels under attack as world food prices soar
Biofuels won’t solve energy problem: Shell
Berkeley biofuels expert Farrell dies at 46
A sustainable biofuels consensus
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– China
– Food vs. Fuel
– Brazil’s Giant Field
– Energy Briefs
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
New York Times: Across globe, empty bellies bring rising anger
UK Mail reveals food prices rising at SIX times official figure
Sticker shock in the organic aisles
A drought in Australia, a global shortage of rice
Potash the new crude
Sulphur: From waste byproduct to billion-dollar commodity
Activist LeDuke focuses on climate, PO, food
Australia’s 2020 Summit: ‘Now that’s a bright idea’
Transition City Leeds
Pakistan: Ban wedding meals, lighting?
Bread expert: we need to bake our own
NYT on kitchen gardens, survivor gardens
Change our diet to resolve the food crisis?
Food shortage looming if crop focus isn’t altered
China agrees to pay triple for potash fertilizer
Unwelcome face of ag-inflation
Rednecks and peak oil: Valuing the farmer’s contribution
“The Farmer is the Man” (and Woman)
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)
BBC: Feeding the world
UN fears tragedy over N. Korean food shortage
The fury of the poor
Global South view of crisis (IPS)
