Showing posts with label Food Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Security. Show all posts
Monday, February 25, 2013
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world.
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world.
People in the rich world should become
"demitarians" – eating half as much meat as usual, while stopping short
of giving it up – in order to avoid severe environmental damage,
scientists have urged, in the clearest picture yet of how farming
practices are destroying the natural world.
The Guardian
Sunday, February 24, 2013
***** Cool! Your Carbon, but not Your CHILDREN! Climate change forcing thousands in Bangladesh into slums of Dhaka.
Climate change forcing thousands in Bangladesh into slums of Dhaka.
Climate change is expected to trigger a
migration like no other.
Experts expect about 250 million people worldwide to move by 2050. Of
those, 20 to 30 million climate change refugees are expected to be in
Bangladesh, likely the largest number from one place.
Toronto Star
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Study: Climate change could devastate U.S. agriculture.
Study: Climate change could devastate U.S. agriculture.
Climate change could have a drastic and
harmful effect on U.S. agriculture, forcing farmers and ranchers to
alter where they grow crops and costing them millions of additional
dollars, a government report said on Tuesday.
Gannett News Service
Fisheries business threatened by ocean acidification.
Fisheries business threatened by ocean acidification.
Between 2005 and 2009, billions of oyster
larvae began dying at hatcheries around Washington state before anyone
knew what was going on or could do anything about it.
The reason, scientists learned, was ocean acidification.
Everett Herald
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Report: Climate change could devastate agriculture. USA TODAY
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A
comprehensive USDA study concludes rising temperatures could cost
farmers millions as they battle new pests, faster weed growth and get
smaller yields as climate change continues. farming. The country was battered by the worst drought to hit in more ...
Friday, January 25, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Heat Waves, Storms, Flooding: Climate Change to Profoundly Affect US Midwest ... Science Daily
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"Climate change
impacts in the Midwest are expected to be as diverse as the landscape
itself. Impacts are already being felt in the forests, in agriculture,
in the Great Lakes and in our urban centers," said Scavia, director of
the Graham ...
How U.S. Biofuel Policy Is Destroying Guatemala's Food Supply. ThinkProgress
How U.S. Biofuel Policy Is Destroying Guatemala's Food Supply
ThinkProgress
A new report in The New York Times highlights how biofuel policy in the United States and Europe has produced a rolling food catastrophe in Guatemala. The country once enjoyed a nearly self-sufficient level of corn production, but domestic producers ...
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As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala's Hunger Pangs
New York Times
Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out ...
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ThinkProgress
A new report in The New York Times highlights how biofuel policy in the United States and Europe has produced a rolling food catastrophe in Guatemala. The country once enjoyed a nearly self-sufficient level of corn production, but domestic producers ...
See all stories on this topic »
As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala's Hunger Pangs
New York Times
Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out ...
See all stories on this topic »
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Monday, October 15, 2012
Corn Belt Shifts North With Climate as Kansas Crop Dies Bloomberg
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It's a glimpse of a future altered by climate change
that will affect worldwide production. “These changes are happening
faster than plants can adapt, so we will see substantial impacts on
global growing patterns,” said Axel Schmidt, a former senior ...
Friday, October 5, 2012
Food Is the New Oil and Land the New Gold: Lester Brown CNBC.com
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
80% of Global Fisheries in STEEP Decline
Posted: 30 Sep 2012 06:25 PM PDT
A
new report by the Sustainable Fisheries Group (SFG) has confirmed the
suspicions held by many researchers that the thousands of fisheries that
there isn’t much data on, that’s nearly 80 percent of the world’s
fisheries, are in steep decline but could potentially recover to a
degree if they are properly managed.
The report, titled “Status and Solutions for the World’s Unassessed Fisheries” found that if quick, effective action was taken “to allow depleted stocks to recover to sustainable levels, (it) could result in future catches that are 8 to 40 percent larger than are predicted if current unsustainable fishing practices continue.”
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Feed, milk prices driving dairies under San Francisco Chronicle
Feed, milk prices driving dairies under
San Francisco Chronicle-19 hours ago
The California Department of Food and Agriculture sets minimum prices that must be paid to farmers in the state for five classes of milk. In recent years ...
Monday, September 24, 2012
World on track for record food prices 'within a year' due to US drought Telegraph.co.uk
World on track for record food prices 'within a year' due to US drought
Telegraph.co.uk
By June 2013, the basket of food prices tracked by the United Nations could climb 15pc from current levels, according to the bank's analysts. "The coming year will see the world economy re-enter a period of agflation as grain and oilseed stocks decline ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
By June 2013, the basket of food prices tracked by the United Nations could climb 15pc from current levels, according to the bank's analysts. "The coming year will see the world economy re-enter a period of agflation as grain and oilseed stocks decline ...
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Acidifying seas threaten island nations' food security -study Reuters
Acidifying seas threaten island nations' food security -study
Reuters
MONTEREY, California (Reuters) - Food security problems caused by climate change and ocean acidification will hit small island and coastal nations hardest, environmental group Oceana said on Monday. The Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean headed ...
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Reuters
MONTEREY, California (Reuters) - Food security problems caused by climate change and ocean acidification will hit small island and coastal nations hardest, environmental group Oceana said on Monday. The Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean headed ...
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Friday, September 21, 2012
World food prices may hit record high in 2013: Rabobank study Economic Times
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"Skyrocketing agri-commodity prices are causing the world to re-enter a period of "agflation", with food prices
forecast to reach record highs in 2013 and to continue to rise well
into Q3 of the 2013," Netherlands-based Rabobank said. Also, the Food ...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Soaring food prices leave middle-class hopeless Hindustan Times
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Steady increases in prices of cereals, vegetables and other basic food items might compel the aam aadmi to cut back on protein, meats and other nutritious diets.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Study: Food crisis imminent within next decade if no change to climate policy Phys.Org
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Sudan Inflation Accelerated to 42.1% in August on Food Cost Businessweek
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Prices of food and drinks, the biggest component in the consumer price index, rose 3.9 percent in the month as the cost of meat, beans and vegetables increased as much as 11.8 percent, the Khartoum-based agency said today in an e-mailed statement.
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