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Adoption of genetically modified crops Brazil's success in agriculture British supermarkets are contributing to global drought Climate change and crops: hindering harvests Climate of change troubles UK farms Computing power aids India's milk farmers Cost of food Cows can fly upper class on common agricultural fare Egypt and Tunisia usher in the new era of global food revolutions EU farm subsidies: crazy cows EU wine crisis EU wine lakes set to be drained Fair Trade Food speculation: 'People die from hunger while banks make a killing' Free Trade leaves world food in grip of global giants Greenhouses lower temperatures in Almería Hedge funds accused of gambling with lives of the poorest as food prices soar Kenya's flower farms flourish Malthus provides food for thought as world's appetite builds It was Malthus who, in a path-breaking 1798 essay, grimly observed that populations expand geometrically (2,4,8,16) while food supplies increase only arithmetically (1,2,3,4). In other words, mankind faces serious problems because population growth, by definition, will eventually outstrip the planet’s ability to provide food. At some point, argued Malthus, the demands of the human race will exceed agricultural capacity, sparking violence, population decline and radical social change. Since then, the world population has risen 5-fold, to 6.8bn people. But new technology has delivered better irrigation, high-yielding hybrids, powerful fertilizers, and pesticides – boosting land yields and proving Malthus seemingly wrong. In the last few years, as population projections have spiraled, and food prices with them, Malthus has started to look pretty smart. Moosters' millions A short animation from CAFOD about the injustice of EU farming subsidies. Would you fly a herd of cows round the world on an all-expenses-paid holiday? The European Union spends enough money each year on farmers to pay for a round the world trip for all 21m European cows. Poisoned dream Right to Roam Skyrocketing corn prices hit ethanol profits Spain's salad growers are modern-day slaves, say charities Spain's three billion litre wine lake Spanish farmers hit by desert growth UK flowers empty Kenya's rivers Unilever chief warns over global crisis in food output What the Green Movement Got Wrong "What the Green Movement Got Wrong", broadcast this week, by the UK's Channel 4, suggests that the Western green consensus against GM foods has impoverished the southern hemisphere.
Adoption of genetically modified crops
Brazil's success in agriculture
British supermarkets are contributing to global drought
Climate change and crops: hindering harvests
Climate of change troubles UK farms
Computing power aids India's milk farmers
Cost of food
Cows can fly upper class on common agricultural fare
Egypt and Tunisia usher in the new era of global food revolutions
EU farm subsidies: crazy cows
EU wine crisis
EU wine lakes set to be drained
Fair Trade
Food speculation: 'People die from hunger while banks make a killing'
Free Trade leaves world food in grip of global giants
Greenhouses lower temperatures in Almería
Hedge funds accused of gambling with lives of the poorest as food prices soar
Kenya's flower farms flourish
Malthus provides food for thought as world's appetite builds
Moosters' millions
Poisoned dream
Right to Roam
Skyrocketing corn prices hit ethanol profits
Spain's salad growers are modern-day slaves, say charities
Spain's three billion litre wine lake
Spanish farmers hit by desert growth
UK flowers empty Kenya's rivers
Unilever chief warns over global crisis in food output
What the Green Movement Got Wrong
