The larder is almost bare
After four consecutive meagre harvests, the result of heat waves, droughts and pestilence,the world’s stockpile of grain is perilously low. Is it a harbinger of ‘gastronomical Armageddon?’
Food
Look forward to a darker world, ‘Global dimming’ may stop the Earth overheating.
It’s official: the world is getting darker. Scientists are now agreed that as cloud cover and particles in the atmosphere increase, the amount of radiation reaching us from the Sun is falling.
Hundreds of Welsh farmers still restricted by Chernobyl
EIGHTEEN years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, as many as 359 Welsh farms are still restricted in moving sheep as a result.
Beyond organics: Envisioning a sustaining food system
The “Gandhi of Greenhouses” airs his frustration with a piecemeal organic movement and lays the framework for a more holistic approach to sustainable food security.
Don’t gripe about gas prices
Oil prices, at their highest levels for more than a decade, are trending upward. Natural gas prices are going out of sight. Yet more blips in the ups and downs of fuel costs? Or, as many believe, the start of an era of ever-more-expensive energy?
Concerned over shortage,China subsidizes peasants to grow more grain
Declining grain output and mounting concerns over food security seem to alarm Chinese leaders again as central and local governments vow to subsidize the world’s greatest number of peasants to grow more grain.
Cuba:Life after Oil
…we looked to one example, Cuba, the only country that has successfully passed through its own artificial “peak oil.”
World Food Prices Rising
Decades of Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries
“Paper or plastic?” Why the kill-for-oil culture will collapse and die
Crises multiply and grow, and still the petroleum bags are just dispensed as though they were falling autumn leaves doing no harm. We are now in the fall before the big autumn storm. Not many will make it through the coming “winter” of our own making.
When the last oil well runs dry
Just as certain as death and taxes is the knowledge that we shall one day be forced to learn to live without oil.
SAUDIS HAVE U.S. OVER A BARREL
The Shifting Terms of Trade Between Grain and Oil. In 1970, a bushel of wheat could be traded for a barrel of oil in the world market. It now takes nine bushels of wheat to buy a barrel of oil.
US: Fertilizer plants shut down
Three stories regarding the pressures of high energy costs on farmers and nitrogen fertilizer producers.
