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Fisheries and Aquaculture Fact Sheet
The world fish catch is a measure of the productivity and health of the oceanic ecosystem that covers 70 percent of the earth’s surface. The extent to which world demand for seafood is outrunning the sustainable yield of fisheries can … Continue reading
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Tagged aquaculture, fish, fish catch, fisheries, food security, overfishing
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Can We Prevent A Food Breakdown?
By Lester R. Brown As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself. We cannot claim that we … Continue reading
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Tagged food scarcity, food security, grain yields, population, soil conservation, water
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Can the World Feed China?
By Lester R. Brown Overnight, China has become a leading world grain importer, set to buy a staggering 22 million tons in the 2013–14 trade year, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture projections. As recently as 2006—just eight … Continue reading
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Tagged China, feedgrain, food scarcity, food security, grain, imports, pork
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Many Countries Reaching Diminishing Returns in Fertilizer Use
By Lester R. Brown When German chemist Justus von Liebig demonstrated in 1847 that the major nutrients that plants removed from the soil could be applied in mineral form, he set the stage for the development of the fertilizer industry … Continue reading
India’s Dangerous ‘Food Bubble’
By Lester R. Brown India is now the world’s third-largest grain producer after China and the United States. The adoption of higher-yielding crop varieties and the spread of irrigation have led to this remarkable tripling of output since the early … Continue reading
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Tagged food bubble, food security, foodless days, India, overpumping
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Moving Up the Food Chain
By Lester R. Brown For most of the time that human beings have walked the earth, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The share of the human diet that came from hunting versus gathering varied with geographic location, hunting skills, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged food chain, food security, meat consumption, overfishing, rangelands
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China and the Soybean Challenge
By Lester R. Brown Some 3,000 years ago, farmers in eastern China domesticated the soybean. In 1765, the first soybeans arrived in North America, but they did not soon catch on as a crop. For 150 years or so the … Continue reading
Rising Temperature, Rising Food Prices
By Lester R. Brown Agriculture as it exists today developed over 11,000 years of rather remarkable climate stability. It has evolved to maximize production within that climate system. Now, suddenly, the climate is changing. With each passing year, the agricultural … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, crop yields, drought, extreme weather, food security
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Peak Water: What Happens When the Wells Go Dry?
By Lester R. Brown Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to our future is peak water. There are substitutes for oil, but not for water. We can produce food without oil, but not without … Continue reading
Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 4. Food or Fuel?
By Lester R. Brown At the time of the Arab oil export embargo in the 1970s, the importing countries were beginning to ask themselves if there were alternatives to oil. In a number of countries, particularly the United States, several … Continue reading
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Tagged biofuels, Energy, ethanol, food security, Lester R. Brown
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