Economic and environmental factors around the world have led to severe food shortages in many countries -- and vast inequity in others, such as China, where consumers have at their fingertips an unprecedented variety of food. How do we combat this crisis? How should international leaders proceed?
I'm not sure if anyone has thought to use a search engine on any of the terms (or combinations of terms) here which may be unfamiliar, or whether its the fact there is too much information found once this is done but in my opinion this threat appears to be of apocalypse proportions... and yet there is not so much as barely a peep in the printed press??? ...and the dark side of politics concerning food supplies, is this taboo within the printed press also? I'm hoping its simply a matter of too much information and a lack of time to get it all sorted out before going to press.
See the
narrated slide showat http://www.panearth.org for a different look at the world food problem.
The UN-FAO advocates expanding new technologies to increase food production. There is, however, a hidden difficulty with this position, a position known in the scientific community as "the food race." The food race is the term used to describe the endeavor to keep food supply at or ahead of demand. However, in Wikipedia, the"
food race"entry states "intensification of cultivation in response to population growth----merely leads to still more population growth." In other words, global increases in food production precipitates global population growth. This perspective has been pointed out in both the
Japan Times and the
Christian Science Monitor. The narrated movie / slide show at http://www.PanEarth.org clearly elucidates the impact of continuing the food race. It is imperative that we understand the long term impact of continually increasing food production.
A large problem starting from the top down
What has been done concerning funding Dr. Yue Jin, the only federal scientist whose main mission is protecting the $17 billion US wheat crop from the threat presented by Ug99 which now sits upon the doorstep of the vital Asian Bread Basket including the Punjab region?