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Expert: Biofuel Crisis Looms

Submitted by cybe on July 13, 2006 - 23:00

The surging demand for corn, sugar cane and vegetable oils to make Earth-friendlier biofuels is pitting hungry cars against hungry people, and troubleâ€™s brewing, says sustainable development pioneer Lester Brown.

"...In effect what we have are 800 million motorists who want to maintain their mobility and two billion people who want to survive,..."

Global Food Supply Near the Breaking Point

Submitted by cybe on May 16, 2006 - 23:00

Rising population, water shortages, climate change, and the growing costs of fossil fuel-based fertilisers point to a calamitous shortfall in the world's grain supplies in the near future, according to Canada's National Farmers Union (NFU).

Thirty years ago, the oceans were teeming with fish, but today more people rely on farmers to produce their food than ever before, says Stewart Wells, NFU's president.

In five of the last six years, global population ate significantly more grains than farmers produced.

China's farmers cannot feed hungry cities

Submitted by cybe on April 25, 2004 - 23:00

Beijing - China's leaders have raised the alarm about their country's ability to feed itself as rapid development sucks land, water and people from the food-producing countryside into increasingly large and hungry cities. After a steady fall in grain harvests, the world's most populous nation recently became a net importer of food for the first time in its history, raising domestic political concerns and driving up international prices of wheat, rice and soya

Europe's harvest crisis

Submitted by cybe on September 5, 2003 - 23:00

"The prolonged heatwave has devastated crops across Europe, leaving some countries facing their worst harvests since the end of the second world war...""..."The heatwave came at a time when world food supplies were already at their most precarious ever. The amount of grain produced for each person on earth is now less than at any time in more than three decades."..."

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