July 28, 2012
by Charlotte Appleton
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Hunger stalks the planet. There has just been massive crop failure in the grain and soy belts of North and South America, due to drought and the failure even of ‘drought resistant’ genetically modified crops. Climate change is seriously disturbing [...]
July 16, 2012
by Charlotte Appleton
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All over the world, weather patterns are being affected by record melting of the polar ice caps this summer. This is causing drought in the United States and South America, while record rainfall in places like the UK is causing [...]
April 5, 2012
by Charlotte Appleton
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Food consumption is set to double by 2050 as world population increases by 40%. Agriculture therefore has to provide this food, there is no other way to get so much food except to grow it. Agricultural output has to double [...]
March 20, 2012
by Charlotte Appleton
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Food insecurity used to be something relegated to the Third World, places like Africa and India. No longer. Due to the economic downturn, people in Western countries like Spain and Italy, and even in poor areas of London, are finding [...]
February 11, 2012
by Charlotte Appleton
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China is undergoing the worst water crisis in its history. In northern China, the fossil water supplies (ancient underground aquifers that cannot be resupplied by rainfall) are already mostly used up. However, the solutions being employed to date seem to [...]
February 11, 2012
by Charlotte Appleton
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You may have noticed that the price of basic foods keeps going up. You may hate thinking in percentages, but do the maths. Are your wages going up at the same rate as food prices?
If you are a farmer, are [...]
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