Food Shortages
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Water Shortages Threaten Food Future in the Arab Middle East
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Captured from a bus window, while crossing the no-man’s land between Jordan and…
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Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever
Editor’s Preamble: This is a first for me. Who would have thought I’d be posting a quarterly newsletter written by…
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The New Geopolitics of Food
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and…
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The War on Africa’s Family Farmers
Proposing ‘grandiose solutions without first diagnosing the causes of what ails Africa and her people has never stopped the World…
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Let No Man Say It Cannot Be Done
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute We need an economy for the twenty-first century, one that is in sync…
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Sustainable Agriculture Urgently Needed, UN Agencies Say
There is now widespread recognition that a rapid shift from industrial monoculture to sustainable farming is needed to save the…
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Earth Policy Institute Video Asks “How Many Failing States Will It Take?”
Watch the full episode. In this PBS-produced video, with actor and philanthropist Matt Damon narrating, Lester Brown gives a good…
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Can the United States Feed China?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In 1994, I wrote an article in World Watch magazine entitled “Who Will…
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“Debunking the Stubborn Myth that Only Industrial Ag Can ‘feed the world’”
Image courtesy of Marc Roberts Tom Philpott has been writing great articles covering issues related to agriculture & food security…
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Why World Food Prices May Keep Climbing
Editor’s Note: In addition to the post from Lester below, also check out this: "Warning Of ‘Food Price Riots In…
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