Food Shortages
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The Biogas Disaster
How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world. In principle it’s a brilliant solution. Instead…
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A “Special Period” in the Mid-Hudson Valley Feeds the New York Local Food Renaissance (USA)
Local squash, like the ones pictured here, are frozen and consumed through the winter by Farm to Table Co-Packers. The…
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Can the World Feed China?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Slim, healthy, happy bovines promote a ‘hip’ new McDonald’s meat based diet to…
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Phosphorous Starvation Threatens the World
A fully referenced version of this paper is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here.…
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
Click to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…
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Crash on Demand? A Response to David Holmgren
D. Lange “Mr. Dougherty and kid. Warm Springs, Malheur County, Oregon” October 1939 David Holmgren, for whom I have the…
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My Story, in Contribution to Our Story of Hope (Zimbabwe)
by Mugove Walter Nyika I grew up with my grandparents in a village 200 km south of the capital Harare,…
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Investing Like An Ecosystem
Over the last few years, I have been formulating my opinion on how to approach investing and what do to…
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Syria Back-Story, Part 2: Blood For Oil
Continuing from Part I. Almost all conflicts that take place in the Middle East are motivated by the need to…
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Less Than 3 Percent of Oceans in Marine Parks Despite Recent Growth
by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute Photo credit: Dr. James P. McVey, NOAA Sea Grant Program In May 1975,…
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India’s Dangerous ‘Food Bubble’
Editor’s Note: As is often the case with the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), crucial solutions are largely missing from the…
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Addressing the Causes of Land Degradation, Food/Nutritional Insecurity and Poverty: a New Approach to Agricultural Intensification in the Tropics and Subtropics
by Roger RB Leakey, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.…
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