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Category Archives: Agriculture
Global food security is possible when food can move freely from areas of surplus to areas of demand Free global agriculture trade is critically important to addressing food insecurity. The world will raise the most food the most economically and … Continue reading
Now a new report from the World Resources Institute has revealed the world will need 60% more calories per year to feed the population by 2050. At the moment 24% of calories produced for people are never consumed.
The financial waste of food thrown out by the average family in the US is $1600 per year, while the 198 million hectares are wasted producing food we don’t eat. Continue reading
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What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. Continue reading
900 million to one billion, more than one eighth of the world’s population live in extreme hunger and poverty and exist on less than 80 pence ($1.20) a day. Thats one in every 8 people. Hunger kills more people than … Continue reading
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Tagged hunger, poverty, world food day, World Hunger Day
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Still wondering why we invest in agricultural equities, commodities and water ? Continue reading
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates spoke May 7 at an International Agriculture and Food Security Briefing sponsored by Farmers Feeding the World, a Farm Journal Foundation Initiative, and the Senate Hunger Caucus. Nothing improves an economy as efficiently as agriculture, the … Continue reading
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Every now and then a book comes along that can change everything and lead you down (or up) a new path, that you would not have discovered without reading it Continue reading
For the time being, all that’s blooming atop the Boston Design Center are panoramic views of the city skyline, harbor, and Seaport District. In a few weeks, though, plants should be sprouting amid the air conditioning units and heat vents. … Continue reading
