July 17th, 2023
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at the impact that climate change may have upon Chinese agriculture: In the maize producing areas around the city of Chengde, in northern China, the heat arrived early this year. With it came drought, the worst in decades. The needle-shaped leaves on the region’s pine trees are turning brown.[…]
Read more »‘A Wake Up Call’: The World Needs to Prepare for Massive Crop Failure
July 13th, 2023
Via Gizmodo, a report on the impact that climate change is having on the jet stream, and what it means crop production and the global farms race in the future: The climate crisis has changed weather patterns, and this could increase crop failure in multiple agricultural regions around the world, a new study says. In[…]
Read more »July 4th, 2023
Via The Interpreter, a look at how the collapse of critical hydroelectric infrastructure in Ukraine will have a devastating knock-on effects for Europe’s breadbasket: The partial destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region on 6 June represents another blow to global food security. Located on the transboundary Dnieper River, which runs from Ukraine’s northern[…]
Read more »Agricultural Land Becoming An Investment Vehicle For The Rich
June 27th, 2023
Via Jacobin, a look at how agricultural land is becoming an investment vehicle for the rich: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work the land on his Hawaii ranch, but he and other wealthy landowners still benefit from huge agricultural tax breaks. The scheme allows the superrich to hoard wealth at the expense of the general public. While[…]
Read more »May 23rd, 2023
Via The Washington Post, commentary from Chef Jose Andres on why global hunger is a national security threat: Threats to U.S. national security are not just measured in missiles, armies and terrorists. Political and economic turmoil, in countries that are important to America and its allies, can also be overwhelming. That’s why fighting hunger and[…]
Read more »Import Dependency and China’s Food Security
May 16th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a detailed look at China’s food security: The issue of food security has been in the news after Xi Jinping’s recent article on agricultural self-reliance in Qiushi journal, a magazine published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). In this article, he pointed out that the Russia-Ukraine crisis has demonstrated[…]
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