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#226296 - 06/21/11 11:05 AM Global food shortages
gonewiththewind Offline
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This is a Wall Street Journal article concerning global food shortages and what the international community is discussing in regards to solutions. A good argument for home gardening.

A Plan to Fight Food Shortage
By SEBASTIAN MOFFETT And CAROLINE HENSHAW

Agriculture ministers from the Group of 20 nations gather Wednesday and Thursday in Paris facing a growing problem: Demand for food is outpacing supply, which is increasingly hampered by weather shocks and government intervention.

*snip* See link for complete story.
A Plan to Fight Food Shortages


Edited by Blast (06/25/11 12:01 AM)

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#226307 - 06/21/11 01:48 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: gonewiththewind]
gonewiththewind Offline
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Edited for length. Let me know if you can't see the article from the link. I am not sure if it is available without the subscription.

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#226309 - 06/21/11 02:11 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: NightHiker]
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
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Registered: 08/03/07
Posts: 3078
Quote:
It sure looks like the wars of the future are going to be more over food production than oil.


The two issues are interrelated, without oil for food production for fertilizer and pesticides and herbicides (can be mitigated somewhat using natural gas energy for this production), for tilling the earth (tractor and agricultural machinery fuels) yields would collapse and the top soils of the most productive farming land in the world would blow away in the wind (such as the 1930s dust bowl), for transportation fuels and for the industrial activities of food processing (prepacked meals in lots of plastic covered paper in the hypermarket). Reverting back to practice of medieval crop rotation systems and Clydesdale horses (assuming the top soil can make the transition), which was abandoned 50 years ago will not be a solution to keep the millions of hungry mouths in the Megacities of the world in the next 10-20 years full, just isn't going to cut it.



Edited by Am_Fear_Liath_Mor (06/21/11 02:18 PM)

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#226310 - 06/21/11 02:30 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
Arney Offline
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Registered: 09/15/05
Posts: 2485
Loc: California
Bang.

-Sheriff Blast


Edited by Blast (06/21/11 07:37 PM)

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#226311 - 06/21/11 02:32 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: gonewiththewind]
Arney Offline
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Registered: 09/15/05
Posts: 2485
Loc: California
Originally Posted By: Montanero
Edited for length. Let me know if you can't see the article from the link. I am not sure if it is available without the subscription.

The full text is not available. Although one can view the article by searching for the headline in Google News and accessing it from that link.

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#226312 - 06/21/11 02:42 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: Arney]
Teslinhiker Offline
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Registered: 12/14/09
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Loc: Nothern Ontario
Originally Posted By: Arney
Originally Posted By: Montanero
Edited for length. Let me know if you can't see the article from the link. I am not sure if it is available without the subscription.

The full text is not available. Although one can view the article by searching for the headline in Google News and accessing it from that link.


The original news story on the WSJ is now reduced to a summary unless you have a subscription. This link appears to still have the full story.
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#226313 - 06/21/11 02:57 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: gonewiththewind]
mpb
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Bang.

-Sheriff Blast, removing overly political commentary


Edited by Blast (06/21/11 03:10 PM)

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#226325 - 06/21/11 05:23 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: gonewiththewind]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
Bang.

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Edited by Blast (06/21/11 07:36 PM)

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#226334 - 06/21/11 06:29 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: gonewiththewind]
bacpacjac Offline
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Registered: 05/05/07
Posts: 3601
Loc: Ontario, Canada
I stumbled upon this writer, Felisa Rogers, a week or two ago and am hooked. She speaks about the impact the economic downturn has had on her, her return to her frugal roots and a scavenging lifestyle. Every article ends with a recipe which uses foraged and homegrown incredients, complimented when they can afford it, by store-bought foods. The importance of knowing how to grow or forage for your own food is becoming a reality for more people every day.

Here's a link to some of her articles:
http://www.salon.com/author/felisa_rogers/index.html

Her piece entitled "How the recession turned me into a Scavenger" is here:
http://www.salon.com/life/pinched/2011/03/01/recession_turned_me_into_scavenger
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#226339 - 06/21/11 08:27 PM Re: Global food shortages [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
desolation Offline
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Registered: 01/21/10
Posts: 60
Loc: Sonoma County, CA
Originally Posted By: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor


The two issues are interrelated, without oil for food production for fertilizer and pesticides and herbicides (can be mitigated somewhat using natural gas energy for this production), for tilling the earth (tractor and agricultural machinery fuels) yields would collapse and the top soils of the most productive farming land in the world would blow away in the wind (such as the 1930s dust bowl), for transportation fuels and for the industrial activities of food processing (prepacked meals in lots of plastic covered paper in the hypermarket). Reverting back to practice of medieval crop rotation systems and Clydesdale horses (assuming the top soil can make the transition), which was abandoned 50 years ago will not be a solution to keep the millions of hungry mouths in the Megacities of the world in the next 10-20 years full, just isn't going to cut it.



I lose a lot of sleep over this. There are two additional compounding factors: fresh water depletion and climate change. Put all four together in the next 10-20 years and we've got one humdinger of a problem to deal with.

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