from agnetwork.com
"It’s become almost boilerplate the media has repeated the assertion so often: In the next 40 years, the world’s farmers must double agricultural output to feed the nine billion people expected to be alive by 2050.
Indeed.
But how many policymakers—not to mention the rest of us—take that fact seriously enough to understand its implications? Now, a new book by an award-winning Australian journalist spells out not only the magnitude of the challenge but some eye-opening ideas to preempt the crisis.
In his book titled, “The Coming Famine,” Julian Cribb, who keynoted the recent Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, argued that the world is running dangerously low on fresh water, arable farmland, fossil fuels, fertilizers, agricultural technology and stable climates."
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1 comment:
I think the big question is not famine in our future but why we have famine now? The green revolution that created incredible raises in productions after wwII created cheap food in the west and population explosions in the rest of the world but did not stop famine in most of the world. It could be argued that cheap food in the west made things worse. cheap , subsidized grain in the U.S has created the problem that much of africa's subsistance farming is no longer possible so when climate change begins to affect what little there is, you have wide spread famine. Subsidize grain surplus is sold to corrupt governments that use the food as a weapon against their own people. world trade has'nt done anyone any favors. What is needed is local solutions, local democracy and local control of land and water supplies. A handful of companys control food supply and water managment. This will need to be rectified, otherwise technology on its own will only make a few companys rich and there will still be famine. just like now
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