Food/Financial Crisis of 2011
World food inflation is smashing down on the world’s populations as prices rise precipitously in the face of increasing shortages and absurd monetary policies. Prices are rising everywhere. It is not millions but billions of people who must tighten their belts because they have no choice but to eat less. Billions of people on our planet have no discretionary funds so they just cannot afford the increased prices. They have to get by with less to eat. They have no choice.
The World We Eat In is Changing
Associated Press writers from around the world recently reported in: In Mauritania in West Africa, rice prices doubled over the first three months of the year, according to the World Food Program. Over the same period, the price of corn rose 59 percent in Zimbabwe and 57 percent in neighboring Mozambique.
Bees – Biological Geiger Counters
The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. The losses were extreme, three times higher than the previous year.
Agricultural Apocalypse: Eating Our Way to Oblivion
What’s needed is a whole new way of thinking about food-one that encompasses health, affordability, accessibility, ecological sustainability, and an economics that enables farmers to keep growing food.
Land Degradation
The erosion of civilization starts with the loss of its top soil. The world’s croplands are in decline as population continues to soar. Sandstorms like this are common in China.
Drought Threatens Vietnam’s Rice Bowl
One of the worst dry periods in Vietnam's recent history has dried up riverbeds and aggravated saline water intrusion into coastal areas, threatening Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta, the country's rice bowl, said an U.N. expert here on Thursday.
World wheat supply in decline
Canadian farmers will produce 9 percent less wheat this year. Argentina has also reported large declines in wheat production. Global wheat production is forecast to fall 3.7% to 651 million tones in 2010.
Agricultural Apocalypse 2010
The food business is far and away the most important business in the world. Everything else is a luxury. Food is what you need to sustain life every day.
The Water Shortage Crisis in America & the World
Billions of people are facing severe water shortages already and quickly this will translate into food shortages. Clean water is one of the most precious commodities yet it is taken for granted and even poisoned with fluoride in the USA.
Mexico water shortage becomes crisis amid drought
Crops are wilting in the countryside, and the capital’s water shortage has turned dire as Mexico grapples with its worst drought in more than half a century. In the parched Mexican countryside, the corn is wilting, the wheat stunted.
Food Supply Worries of an Agricultural Scientist
A few days of intense rain or heat at the wrong time can devastate a crop. A few weeks of drought can do the same. A single hail or frost event can make all the difference in what a farmer can harvest.
2010 Food Crisis for Dummies by Eric deCarbonnel
As food prices continue to rise some many people will have to eat less. We are going to witness in the most brutal fashion the terror of capitalism as doing without leads to wide scale hunger, malnutrition, starvation, sickness and death.
USDA estimates for 2009/10 make no sense
The USDA has declared half the counties in the Midwest to be primary disaster areas, including 274 counties at the end of 2009 yet is predicting record harvests.
Southeast Asia Drought Triggers Debate Over Region’s Water Resources
The Dachaoshan dam in Dachaoshan, Yunnan province, China, which is located on the upper Mekong River, 28 Aug 2001
China sends emergency food to drought-stricken provinces
Temperatures and rainfall reach worst levels since 1950s, affecting 18m people and 11m livestock in southern regions
Oil Catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico
The oil disaster is no longer an abstraction floating out at sea. It's coming ashore spreading terror and agony to angry and desperate local populations; smearing tourist beaches, washing onto the shorelines of sleepy coastal communities and oozing into marshy bays that fishermen have worked for generations, destroying fisheries, devastating birds, creating an incredible mess and costing a bloody fortune.
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Food/Financial Crisis of 2011
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Read more of this articleWorld wheat supply in decline
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Read more of this articleMexico water shortage becomes crisis amid drought
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Read more of this articleLand Degradation
Picture from the National Archives, taken during the “Dust Bowl” in the 1930′s The world’s croplands are in decline due to the pressure of human activities. The figure shows the regional and global trends...
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Read more of this article2010 Food Crisis for Dummies by Eric deCarbonnel
December 17, 2009 If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless. There is overwhelming, undeniable evidence...
Read more of this articleBees – Biological Geiger Counters
The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. A quick federal survey indicates a heavy bee die-off this winter of 2010, while a new study shows honeybees’ pollen and hives laden with pesticides....
Read more of this articleAgricultural Apocalypse: Eating Our Way to Oblivion
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Read more of this articleUSDA estimates for 2009/10 make no sense
If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless. There is overwhelming, undeniable evidence that the...
Read more of this articleSoutheast Asia Drought Triggers Debate Over Region’s Water Resources
A drought across southern China and Southeast Asia has brought the Mekong River to its lowest level in 50 years. The drought has led to debate over the vital resource and the effects that economic development, especially dam...
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Time line of retail prices in India (Delhi ) for common food items. Inflation amidst plenty is creating hardship and hunger. If prices explode upward it will be a disaster of staggering proportions for the world’s poorest billions.