Oil and grains soar, CRB nears record
Crude oil prices set a record high Tuesday on fears that top exporter Saudi Arabia was vulnerable to terror attacks while soaring grain prices also pushed commodity price indexes back toward multiyear highs.
Food & Water
US: Rising Energy Costs Straining Farmers
The U.S. Agriculture Department’s chief economist, Keith Collins, said rising energy and fertilizer costs could add $1 billion to U.S. crop production costs.
Report: Regional Footprint 33 Times Too Large for Sustainability
OAKLAND, Calif.– A new analysis of the Bay Area’s ecological impact by Redefining Progress, done in conjunction with the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, shows that the Bay Area relies on the equivalent of more than 146 million acres to sustain itself. This area is nearly the size of the states of California and Oregon combined.
‘The Oil We Eat’ Following the Food Chain back to Iraq
The journalist’s rule says: follow the money. This rule, however, is not really axiomatic but derivative, in that money, as even our vice president will tell you, is really a way of tracking energy. We’ll follow the energy.
The larder is almost bare
After four consecutive meagre harvests, the result of heat waves, droughts and pestilence,the world’s stockpile of grain is perilously low. Is it a harbinger of ‘gastronomical Armageddon?’
Look forward to a darker world, ‘Global dimming’ may stop the Earth overheating.
It’s official: the world is getting darker. Scientists are now agreed that as cloud cover and particles in the atmosphere increase, the amount of radiation reaching us from the Sun is falling.
Hundreds of Welsh farmers still restricted by Chernobyl
EIGHTEEN years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, as many as 359 Welsh farms are still restricted in moving sheep as a result.
Beyond organics: Envisioning a sustaining food system
The “Gandhi of Greenhouses” airs his frustration with a piecemeal organic movement and lays the framework for a more holistic approach to sustainable food security.
Don’t gripe about gas prices
Oil prices, at their highest levels for more than a decade, are trending upward. Natural gas prices are going out of sight. Yet more blips in the ups and downs of fuel costs? Or, as many believe, the start of an era of ever-more-expensive energy?
Concerned over shortage,China subsidizes peasants to grow more grain
Declining grain output and mounting concerns over food security seem to alarm Chinese leaders again as central and local governments vow to subsidize the world’s greatest number of peasants to grow more grain.
Cuba:Life after Oil
…we looked to one example, Cuba, the only country that has successfully passed through its own artificial “peak oil.”
World Food Prices Rising
Decades of Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries