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2.4 billion extra people, no more land: how will we feed the world in 2050?Steve Connor reveals how scientists propose a major policy shift to tackle one of the great challenges of the 21st century The Independent, UKSaturday, 22 January 2011 The finite resources of the Earth will be be stretched as never before in…
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How Are We Going To Double Global Food Production Over The Next 40 Years? The Farm Gate, University of IllinoisDecember 22, 2010Stu EllisWith the US Census showing more than 308 million people, there is curiosity about how many people there are in the world. The current estimate of 7.5 billion is forecast to grow to nine…
Farming the Future: GM Crops Recommended as Key Part of Obama’s “Evergreen RevolutionScientific American posting A former Agriculture Department chief scientist weighs in on President Obama’s U.S-India plan, arguing that biotechnology is crucial to the growth of food productivity and security that is necessary to feed a surging global populationBy David Despain | December 9,…
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China’s hungry againANDREW MARSHALL03 Dec, 2010 11:19 AM Farm on LineTHE global economy might be only running in second gear, but demand for food is fast moving into supercharged territory again, particularly in hungry China. In October average food prices jumped 10 per cent as commodity prices leapt in the dragon economy, which is now…
Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context of Development– Proceedings of a Study Week invited by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, May 15-19, 2009A joint publication of the invited participants of the Study Week as an open source Volume of NEW BIOTECHNOLOGY of Elsevier and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Food security…
The Economics of Food: How Feeding and Fuelling the Planet Effects Food Prices.(Link to Amazon entry)Patrick Westhoff. FT Press ( Financial Times, Pearson Education Ltd), New Jersey 2010.ISBN – 10: 0 – 13 – 700610 – 1ISBN – 13: 978 – 0 – 13 – 700610 – 6 Patrick Westhoff is an experienced agricultural economist…
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Why Genetically Modified food is necessary to feed the planet by Jonathan Gray for The Toronto Globalist Saving the species. It’s the noblest goal any human can aspire to, and it is associated with figures who are the paragon of humanity. I do not wish to speak about ‘saving souls’ in a religious sense. Abraham…
Not quite assuredAn upbeat assessment of phosphate reserves leaves several questions unanswered. Reserves of the phosphate rock used to make such fertilizers are finite, and concerns have been raised that they are in danger of exhaustion. It has been argued, for example, that data from the US Geological Survey point to the available supplies peaking…
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ASA Withdraws From Leonardo Academy’s Sustainable Ag Standard Development Process Press Release — ST. LOUIS, MO — October 19, 2010 — The American Soybean Association (ASA) today announced that it is withdrawing from the Leonardo Academy’s initiative to develop a sustainable agriculture standard for American National Standards Institute. While ASA supports the goal of a…
The EU Ranks as the World’s Biggest Net Importer of Agricultural Produce While Neglecting Critical Investment in Agricultural ResearchPress ReleaseBERLIN, October 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ —– International Competition for Agricultural Production Land is Rising Dramatically The food situation in poor countries continues to deteriorate. On World Food Day, October 16th, the number of starving people worldwide…