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Food Articles

Article:	Land, Water and Conflict	View Article
Published:	7/7/2008 by Newsweek (Jeffrey Sachs)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 137 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & Global Warming

Article Details: The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in impoverished regions already facing environmental stress. Climate change, water scarcity and tighter oil supplies will add to the stresses. The tendency might be to look to the military for solutions. We'll need to keep in mind that engineers and doctors will be the only ones who can truly keep us safe.

Article:	Honey Bee Crisis Could Push Food Prices Even Higher	View Article
Published:	6/26/2008 by Huffington Post (Stephanie S. Garlow)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 142 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & Animals

Article Details: Food prices could rise even more unless the mysterious decline in honey bees is solved, farmers and businessmen told lawmakers Thursday. Bee pollination is responsible for $15 billion annually in crop value. In 2006, beekeepers began reporting losing 30 percent to 90 percent of their hives. This phenomenon has become known as Colony Collapse Disorder.

Article:	World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front - Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)	View Article
Published:	4/16/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 212 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & People And Politics

Article Details: A fast-unfolding food shortage is engulfing the entire world, driving food prices to record highs. Population growth, increased affluence and demand for more grain-intensive livestock products, and the use of more grain to produce ethanol for cars have contributed to rising food prices, spreading of hunger, social unrest and political instability. If food security cannot be restored the number of failing states will likely increase dramatically, threatening the very stability of civilization it

Article:	Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist - James Randerson	View Article
Published:	3/7/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 253 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & Biofuels

Article Details: Food security and the rapid rise in food prices make up the "elephant in the room" that politicians must face up to quickly. Professor John Beddington said the global rush to grow biofuels was compounding the problem, and cutting down rainforest to produce biofuel crops was "profoundly stupid". It is very hard to see a world growing enough crops to produce renewable energy and at the same time meet the enormous demand for food to alleviate poverty.

Article:	Sewage-based fertilizer safety doubted - John Heilprin and Kevin S. Vineys (Associated Press)	View Article
Published:	3/6/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 253 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Living Green & Food

Article Details: Government practice is to rid lakes and rivers of raw sewage and industrial pollution by converting it all into a free, nutrient-rich fertilizer. A farmer's cows died by the hundreds after his land was poisoned by sludge from the waste treatment plant. A 30-year government policy encourages farmers to spread millions of tons of sewage sludge over thousands of acres each year as an alternative to commercial fertilizers. The program is still in effect.