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Growing Food for a Growing Population: Part of the “Future of Food” Debate

September 15, 2009 No comments yet

Andrew Revkin, Environment Reporter at the New York Times, discusses the challenges of increasing future food production, as part of an online debate on the “Future of Food” hosted by Spiked.
Revkin notes the need for another green revolution, the first of which was inspired by the recently deceased Norman Borlaug in the 1950s and 1960s. 

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Nobel Winner Claims Future Food Crisis is No “False Alarm”

March 23, 2009 No comments yet

Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, recently warned that the world should not allow the financial crisis to overshadow a lingering food crisis.
Krugman noted that a number of resource constraints – such as access to water, oil, and arable land – are converging with growing demand,

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