Food global news 2007 - 2010

2010


 * Rice yields falling under global warming, 9 August

2009


 * Environmental impact of the lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food has been vastly underestimated, and in fact accounts for at least half of all human-caused greenhouse gases, October 20 topic


 * World's largest urban farm planned for the city of Detroit, April 2

2008


 * The way the world grows its food will have to change radically to better serve the poor and hungry if the world is to cope with a growing population and climate change while avoiding social breakdown and environmental collapse, says International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development report by over 400 scientists, April 15


 * IIED 3 year project to gather the views of small-scale farmers, indigenous people, nomadic pastoralists, rural communities, food workers and other citizens in Mali, India, Iran and the Andean region of Latin America (Bolivia and Peru), April 14

2007
 * New Meat Byproducts: Avian Flu and Global Climate change, February 19 Worldwatch Institute

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