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The Food Chain: Mideast Facing Choice Between Crops and Water
By Andrew Martin
Published: July 21, 2008
CAIRO — Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North
Africa in a quandary, as they are forced to choose between growing more
crops to feed an expanding population or preserving their already scant
supply of water. To read more...
Is there Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?
By Andrew Rice
November 16, 2009
Foreign investors —
some of them representing governments, some of them private interests —
are promising to construct infrastructure, bring new technologies,
create jobs and boost the productivity of underused land so that it not
only feeds overseas markets but also feeds more Africans. (More than a
third of the continent’s population is malnourished.) They’ve found
that impoverished governments are often only too welcoming, offering
land at giveaway prices. To read more...
Living with a Changing Water Environment
By Jerald L. Schnoor
Biofuels are not sustainable, at least not in the way we
practice row-crop agriculture today. Far too many nutrients run off the
land causing eutrophication of nearby waters, and far too much soil
erodes for biofuels to be considered sustainable in the long run. To read more...
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