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20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is Coming
Pin It The following are 20 signs that a horrific global food crisis is coming . According to the World Bank, 44 million people around the globe have been pushed into extreme poverty since last June because of rising food prices. The world is losing topsoil at an astounding rate.
The Great Food Crisis of 2011 - By Lester Brown
As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the United Kingdom. Food riots are spreading across Algeria. Russia is importing grain to sustain its cattle herds until spring grazing begins. India is wrestling with an 18-percent annual food inflation rate, sparking protests.The world food situation is starting to get very, very tight. Unprecedented heat and wildfires this summer in Russia and horrific flooding in Pakistan and China have been some of the primary reasons for the rapidly rising food prices we are now seeing around the globe. In places such as Australia and the African nation of Guinea-Bissau, the big problem for crops has been locusts.
5 Dangers To Global Crops That Could Dramatically Reduce The World Food Supply
The first ranchers, and the Plains Indians before them, knew of water below the ground from the watering holes that sustained buffalo and then cattle far from any river. The white man learnt to drill, leaving primitive windmills on top of wooden derricks silhouetted against Wild West horizons. But it was only in the 1940s, after the Dust Bowl (the result of a severe drought and excessive farming in the early 1930s), that the US Geological Survey worked out that the watering holes were clues to the Ogallala, now believed to be the world's largest body of fresh water. They were about to repeat the dreams of man from the days of Ancient Egypt and Judea to turn the desert green, only without the Nile or Jordan. With new technology the wells could reach the deepest water, and from the early 1950s the boom was on. Some of the descendants of Dust Bowl survivors became millionaire landowners.
US farmers fear the return of the Dust Bowl
March 25, 2010 No matter where you live -- in a brick Philadelphia row house, the sprawling suburbs of Dallas or an apartment in Seattle -- you depend, more than most of us know, on honeybees raised in California or Florida. The bees have been dying in unusually large numbers , and scientists are trying to figure out why. "One in every three bites of food you eat comes from a plant, or depends on a plant, that was pollinated by an insect, most likely a bee," said Dennis vanEngelsdorp of Penn State University's College of Agricultural Sciences. "We're still managing to pollinate all the orchards," he said. "But we're really cutting it close out there."
Honey Bees Are Dying; Scientists Suspect Pesticides, Disease, and Worry About Food Supply
Bees hang in the balance in the fight against invasive stink bugs. Photo: david.nikonvscanon For many Americans, the brown marmorated stink bug is a well-known household pest — but it’s also a serious agricultural threat. This invasive species arrived in Pennsylvania from China back in the mid-90s and has since spread to 33 states. Their spread may be exacerbated by climate change, as stink bugs seems to thrive in warmer weather (although the link is at best unclear). The stink bug is a nuisance in homes, where it can infest nooks and crannies and prove difficult to dislodge.
EPA risks kiling bees to fight invasive stink bugs
White-Nose Syndrome Bat Disease: An Unprecedented Epidemic
From the Center for Biological Diversity's Mollie Matteson: You might not know it, but a quiet killer is stalking America's bats. A fast-spreading disease called white-nose syndrome has already wiped out more than a million bats in the eastern United States.
Scientist warns of dire consequences with widespread use of glyphosate
Scientist warns of dire consequences with widespread use of glyphosate The December/January 2010 issue of The Organic & Non-GMO Report featured an interview with Robert Kremer, an adjunct professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri, whose research showed negative environmental impacts caused by glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, which is used extensively with Roundup Ready genetically modified crops. The following interview is with another scientist, Don Huber, who recently retired from Purdue University, who has also documented negative environmental impacts from glyphosate. The widespread use of glyphosate is causing negative impacts on soil and plants as well as possibly animal and human health.
Monsanto, Monsanto, Monsanto. Is it simply a scary coincidence that nearly every time bad news hits, they’re involved? (Hint: No.)
Roundup—the American Weed-Killer—Is Likely Killing American People, Too