An investigation by the Associated Press reveals how agricultural giant Monsanto uses its stranglehold on the seed industry to push out smaller competitors and control the world’s food supply. Expect food to get even more expensive.
Human food supply
Vale Norman Borlaug: he “saved more lives than any man in human history”
Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug has passed away, age 95. His work to create a high-yield wheat crop helped double world food production between 1960 and 1990 and is credited with saving a billion people from starvation.
Solutions for a starving planet
By 2050, the world will have nine billion people to feed, and increasingly less land to do it with. Popular Science looks at eight potential farming innovations — from genetically engineered rice to robot farmers — to help stop world hunger and feed a growing world’s appetite.
Wealthy Arab nations sew foreign soil to secure food supply
Oil-rich but agriculture-poor Middle Eastern countries are leasing land in developing nations like Cambodia, Vietnam and Sudan to shore up their food supply, but critics claim the deals are just a form of neo-colonialism.
Burning the fat: obesity and global warming
A new study plays out a grim scene: a world of overweight populations draining the earth’s resources and forcing up global temperatures.
The coming global catastrophe: what will we tell the next generation?
A British Government advisor is predicting a global catastrophe by 2030 over diminishing food, water and energy supplies. What will you tell your children if he’s correct? asks Martin Flanagan.
State of the planet
Youth can be the vanguard for action on climate change … Climate focus ‘ignores wildlife’ … Water shortages threaten human food supply … Britain’s climate bill target to be reviewed by year end … Shark species face extinction amid overfishing and appetite for fins
