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Corporate Carve-Up
Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramble for Africa. by George Monbiot One…
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Genetically Modified Crops and Hunger – Another Look at the Evidence
Genetically modified crops are hailed by their proponents as the basis for a “new green revolution”, and as the key…
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Carbon-Sequestering Perennial Industrial Crops
This article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree…
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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity – Chapter 1, Food: The Weak Link
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one…
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New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilizations
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one…
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons…
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Food MythBusters – Do We Really Need Industrial Agriculture to Feed the World? (video)
Further Reading: A Farm for the Future (BBC video) The Rodale Institute’s 30-Year Farming Systems Trial Report Biodiverse Systems are…
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A 50,000-Foot View of the Global Crisis
We are now well into a global crisis that may mark the end of this cycle of human civilization. In…
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By the Numbers – Data Highlights from Full Planet, Empty Plates
by Earth Policy Institute More than 150 data sets accompany Lester R. Brown’s latest book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The…
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The Fight Against Canola Invasion of the Willamette Valley, Oregon
Have you heard about the problems with growing canola in seed-production regions? Did you know canola can harm the farmers…
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Empty Promise
Could scientists have got the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic…
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ASPO 2012 Presentations
From May 30 — June 1, 2012, the 10th ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas) meeting…
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